I've never setup such a system. I imagine it'd need some
infrastructure in place.

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Thad Guidry <[email protected]> wrote:
> Corey,
>
> Could we get that comments/feedback ability into the tutorial easily ?  I
> agree that would be a good start in improving things.
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Corey Richardson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Daniel Glazman
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > The Tutorial is the entry point for all people willing to investigate
>> > Rust and/or contribute to Servo. I think that document is super
>> > precious, super-important. Unfortunately, I don't think it is really a
>> > tutorial but only a lighter manual. Examples are here even more
>> > important than in the case of the Manual above. A good Tutorial is
>> > often built around one single programming task that becomes more and
>> > more complex as more features of the language are read and
>> > known. Furthermore, the Tutorial has clearly adopted the language
>> > complexity of the reference manual, something that I think should be
>> > in general avoided. I also think all examples should be buildable
>> > and produce a readable result on the console even if that result is a
>> > build or execution error. That would drastically help the reader.
>> >
>> > All in all, I think the Tutorial needs some love and probably a
>> > technical writer who is not working on the guts of Rust, someone who
>> > could vulgarize the notions of the Manual into an easy-to-read,
>> > simple-to-experiment, step-by-step tutorial and avoiding in general
>> > vocabulary inherited from programming language science.
>> >
>>
>> I agree, partially. I think "Rust for Rubyists" fills this role quite
>> well for now. Generally I  think the language tutorial should not try
>> to hide complexity or paper over things, at the very least so it can
>> be complete and correct. I think the Python tutorial is a good
>> benchmark. We might even be able to rip off the Python tutorial's
>> structure wholesale.
>>
>> The "on-boarding" process is still very rough. Maybe some sort of
>> live-comment system would work well for finding pain points, where one
>> can add comments/feedback while reading the tutorial.
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