Re: [Rails-core] documentation

2006-08-12 Thread court3nay
On Aug 8, 2006, at 4:43 PM, Jeremy Kemper wrote: On Aug 8, 2006, at 3:47 PM, Michael Koziarski wrote: For example I just submitted a documentation patch (http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/5762) for the :from option for the ActiveRecord find method. I'd think that adding support for this opt

Re: [Rails-core] documentation

2006-08-08 Thread Jeremy Kemper
On Aug 8, 2006, at 3:47 PM, Michael Koziarski wrote: For example I just submitted a documentation patch (http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/5762) for the :from option for the ActiveRecord find method. I'd think that adding support for this option should have had documentation associated with it w

Re: [Rails-core] documentation

2006-08-08 Thread Michael Koziarski
For example I just submitted a documentation patch (http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/5762) for the :from option for the ActiveRecord find method. I'd think that adding support for this option should have had documentation associated with it when it was added to begin with. Just me 2 cents. Tr

Re: [Rails-core] documentation

2006-08-08 Thread Michael Genereux
Another good example that lacks documentation is behavior additions/changes. I.e.: the patch for has_one saving on create versus saving on update where it used to save on both. The new patch doesn't do what I expect and I has to bug poor Jonathan to clarify what his expectations were on his p

Re: [Rails-core] documentation

2006-08-08 Thread court3nay
On Aug 8, 2006, at 10:41 AM, Andrew Kaspick wrote: The submission process for patches doesn't mention updating associated documentation (as far as I can see). This should also be a requirement along with test cases so that documentation stays up to date. +1 court3nay ___

Re: Re: [Rails-core] documentation

2006-08-08 Thread Kevin Clark
I think at the moment it's heavily encouraged that documenation be included with patches. What this turns out to mean commit side is that if your patch has associated documentation and tests included it's significantly more likely that it will be commited. More people just need to know this (or ta

Re: [Rails-core] documentation

2006-08-08 Thread Tom Werner
Andrew Kaspick wrote: The submission process for patches doesn't mention updating associated documentation (as far as I can see). This should also be a requirement along with test cases so that documentation stays up to date. If we're planning on having good documention and we use the fund mo

[Rails-core] documentation

2006-08-08 Thread Andrew Kaspick
Hello, Just thought I'd make a remark regarding documentation. The submission process for patches doesn't mention updating associated documentation (as far as I can see). This should also be a requirement along with test cases so that documentation stays up to date. If we're planning on having

Re: [Rails-core] Documentation Project

2006-08-06 Thread court3nay
On Aug 5, 2006, at 2:28 PM, A. S. Bradbury wrote: On Friday 04 August 2006 23:42, court3nay wrote: Hey all, #caboose has started a fund to hire someone, or offer a bounty, to work in a dedicated fashion on documentation.. We've already raised over $800 in the first hour. (make that $900..) (it

Re: [Rails-core] Documentation Project

2006-08-05 Thread A. S. Bradbury
On Friday 04 August 2006 23:42, court3nay wrote: > Hey all, > > #caboose has started a fund to hire someone, or offer a bounty, to > work in a dedicated fashion on documentation.. > We've already raised over $800 in the first hour. (make that $900..) > (it's gone up to $1120 in the time it took to

Re: [Rails-core] Documentation Project

2006-08-05 Thread Rick Bradley
* court3nay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060805 13:30]: > By the way.. we just passed $13,000 in donations. Yay, community! > > I'm going to need a NPO (non-profit) to funnel this through, what do you (i.e. > core-list) people think about a Rails foundation? It takes a long time to get 501(c)(3)'s set u

Re: Re: [Rails-core] Documentation Project

2006-08-05 Thread Kevin Clark
On 8/5/06, Blake Watters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: $13,000 in what, 24 hours? Holy balls, that's some serious response! It's really more like 18 hours... :) -- Kevin Clark http://glu.ttono.us ___ Rails-core mailing list Rails-core@lists.rubyonrails

Re: [Rails-core] Documentation Project

2006-08-05 Thread Blake Watters
$13,000 in what, 24 hours? Holy balls, that's some serious response! Somebody should get another post up on Riding Rails with that sweet number.On Aug 5, 2006, at 2:28 PM, court3nay wrote:On Aug 4, 2006, at 5:39 PM, Charles O Nutter wrote:On 8/4/06, court3nay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Aug 4, 20

Re: [Rails-core] Documentation Project

2006-08-05 Thread Michael Genereux
That's what I emailed you about earlier today. ;-) court3nay wrote: Yup.. a coherent voice really helps. By the way.. we just passed $13,000 in donations. Yay, community! I'm going to need a NPO (non-profit) to funnel this through, what do you (i.e. core-list) people think about a Rails fo

Re: [Rails-core] Documentation Project

2006-08-05 Thread court3nay
On Aug 4, 2006, at 5:39 PM, Charles O Nutter wrote:On 8/4/06, court3nay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Aug 4, 2006, at 5:11 PM, Charles O Nutter wrote:> Perhaps taking a wiki approach would be a better way to target this> fundage? I'm thinking about doing this with RubySpec...get the> community cont

Re: [Rails-core] Documentation Project

2006-08-04 Thread Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov
On 5-aug-2006, at 2:39, Charles O Nutter wrote: That's fair too..I think any good wiki needs a steward (or a few stewards) to keep it uniform. But a good wiki is quite an amazing thing. I absolutely _adored_ the Rails Hieraki. I would love to see it get some attention instead of the wiki

Re: [Rails-core] Documentation Project

2006-08-04 Thread Charles O Nutter
On 8/4/06, court3nay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Aug 4, 2006, at 5:11 PM, Charles O Nutter wrote:> Perhaps taking a wiki approach would be a better way to target this> fundage? I'm thinking about doing this with RubySpec...get the> community contributing to the wiki, using the money as "prizes" f

Re: [Rails-core] Documentation Project

2006-08-04 Thread court3nay
On Aug 4, 2006, at 5:11 PM, Charles O Nutter wrote: Perhaps taking a wiki approach would be a better way to target this fundage? I'm thinking about doing this with RubySpec...get the community contributing to the wiki, using the money as "prizes" for the top contributors. I think it's impor

Re: [Rails-core] Documentation Project

2006-08-04 Thread Charles O Nutter
Perhaps taking a wiki approach would be a better way to target this fundage? I'm thinking about doing this with RubySpec...get the community contributing to the wiki, using the money as "prizes" for the top contributors. I think it's important that documentation efforts like this involve a larger c

Re: [Rails-core] Documentation Project

2006-08-04 Thread Rick Olson
On 8/4/06, court3nay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey all, #caboose has started a fund to hire someone, or offer a bounty, to work in a dedicated fashion on documentation.. We've already raised over $800 in the first hour. (make that $900..) (it's gone up to $1120 in the time it took to write this

[Rails-core] Documentation Project

2006-08-04 Thread court3nay
Hey all, #caboose has started a fund to hire someone, or offer a bounty, to work in a dedicated fashion on documentation.. We've already raised over $800 in the first hour. (make that $900..) (it's gone up to $1120 in the time it took to write this email) The post is here: http://blog.caboo