Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <3B3A07A7.3000601@dufair.org> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 11:19:51 -0500 From: Jason Dufair User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010607 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: documentation & dear love References: <3B391600 DOT 6080408 AT gruntose DOT com> <20010627021651 DOT N19058 AT redhat DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >However, I can see that the documentation could be misconstrued. >Cygwin's documentation is not perfect. I don't know of any project >which has perfect documentation. I would dearly love to have someone >actively working on it. > I'll step up and volunteer to work on documentation. I've been building up to working on coding (getting cygwin and the tools to compile for a start) since I'm a hacker first, but I am aware that too many open source projects are in dire need of documentatation and I'm getting sufficient number of technical challenges at work at this point. Unless you prefer to have more people writing code, of course. Christopher (or anyone), can you give me a ballpark idea of what needs to be done and where I might start? I've spent a fair amount of time under the "Contributing" link, but it seems mostly to be about writing code. Should I look at updating the user's guide? The FAQ? I've been using cygwin since about b17 and have been on and off the list, so I think I'm fairly qualified to help with the docs. And I'll certainly consult the list or whomever I should consult about suggested updates and changes. -- Jason Dufair - jase AT dufair DOT org http://www.dufair.org/ "The oldest one captains the bleak white ship of bone with palsied hands The one of middle years wears a hope like chains The youngest one cries tears of scarlet, and adjusts her latest smile" -- ToasterLeavings -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/