Re: Documentation overhaul

2016-10-12 Thread Bruce Miller
On 10/12/2016 11:03 AM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: On Oct 12, 2016, at 10:30 AM, Bruce Miller wrote: On 10/09/2016 09:53 AM, Marcel Bischoff wrote: Hi all. As Ryan has identified that the online documentation needs work, I would applaud this, while acknowledging that

Re: Documentation overhaul

2016-10-12 Thread Lawrence Velázquez
> On Oct 12, 2016, at 10:30 AM, Bruce Miller wrote: > > On 10/09/2016 09:53 AM, Marcel Bischoff wrote: >> Hi all. >> >> As Ryan has identified that the online documentation needs work, > > I would applaud this, while acknowledging that it will be a lot > of work. > > To

Re: Documentation overhaul

2016-10-12 Thread Bruce Miller
On 10/09/2016 09:53 AM, Marcel Bischoff wrote: Hi all. As Ryan has identified that the online documentation needs work, I would applaud this, while acknowledging that it will be a lot of work. To pick up on a comment from another thread: Although I tend to program Perl like lisp, I might

Re: Documentation overhaul

2016-10-10 Thread Ryan Schmidt
> On Oct 10, 2016, at 2:44 PM, Rainer Müller wrote: > > On 2016-10-10 01:23, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> Thanks for your interest, Marcel, but do you feel you would be able >> to lead such an effort, since you seem to be new to MacPorts? I've >> been with MacPorts for around 10

Re: Documentation overhaul

2016-10-10 Thread Clemens Lang
Hi, On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 09:44:17PM +0200, Rainer Müller wrote: > Now here is Marcel offering his help with the documentation. I do not > want to turn down his offer or stop him from contributing in any way. > > [...] > > If Marcel has time right now, I think he should just start with the >

Re: Documentation overhaul

2016-10-10 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2016-10-10 01:23, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Thanks for your interest, Marcel, but do you feel you would be able > to lead such an effort, since you seem to be new to MacPorts? I've > been with MacPorts for around 10 years and have thought of rewriting > the documentation for several years so I feel

Re: Documentation overhaul

2016-10-09 Thread Lawrence Velázquez
> On Oct 9, 2016, at 7:23 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > I've been with MacPorts for around 10 years and have thought of > rewriting the documentation for several years so I feel I might be > able to do it. +1 > I'm just not doing it right this second because I'm busy

Re: Documentation overhaul

2016-10-09 Thread Ryan Schmidt
> On Oct 9, 2016, at 15:23, Rainer Müller wrote: > > Hello Marcel, > >> On 2016-10-09 15:53, Marcel Bischoff wrote: >> As Ryan has identified that the online documentation needs work, I'm >> hereby volunteering to give it a go. Since there appear to be quite >> specific

Re: Documentation overhaul

2016-10-09 Thread Rainer Müller
Hello Marcel, On 2016-10-09 15:53, Marcel Bischoff wrote: > As Ryan has identified that the online documentation needs work, I'm > hereby volunteering to give it a go. Since there appear to be quite > specific views on how everthing here needs to be, I'm asking in advance: > > - Is that in

Re: Documentation overhaul

2016-10-09 Thread Marcel Bischoff
On 16/10/09, Ken Cunningham wrote: On 2016-10-09, at 6:53 AM, Marcel Bischoff wrote: there appear to be quite specific views on how everthing here needs to be This is true, and it doesn't take long to notice -- but over 20,000 ports hang tight together and almost all of them work all the

Re: Documentation overhaul

2016-10-09 Thread Ken Cunningham
On 2016-10-09, at 6:53 AM, Marcel Bischoff wrote: > there appear to be quite specific views on how everthing here needs to be This is true, and it doesn't take long to notice -- but over 20,000 ports hang tight together and almost all of them work all the way back to Tiger. And that is no

Documentation overhaul

2016-10-09 Thread Marcel Bischoff
Hi all. As Ryan has identified that the online documentation needs work, I'm hereby volunteering to give it a go. Since there appear to be quite specific views on how everthing here needs to be, I'm asking in advance: - Is that in everyone's interest? - Is there already someone working on it?