Re: Need Volunteers for Docs!

From: Klemens Morgenstern (klemensdavidmorgenstern_at_[hidden])
Date: 2023-03-18 01:06:51

I've been writing the occasional post on cppalliance.org, should that go to
boost instead? Or should boost operate like an aggregator?

On Sat, Mar 18, 2023 at 8:55 AM Vinnie Falco via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> All:
>
> We are working on the User's Guide which is for people who want to use
> Boost, and we are working on the Contributor's guide which is for
> people who want to contribute to Boost. This includes authors,
> maintainers, reviewers, review managers, review wizards, release
> managers, contributors, testers, basically everyone who is changing
> the state of our repositories somehow.
>
> These manuals are written in Asciidoc, but we need volunteers who can
> jump in and start producing results right away. Most of the existing
> site content has been ported to markdown and it needs editing and
> sorting into a table of contents. The Getting Started instructions
> which go into the release are in pretty rough shape and need editing.
>
> Documentation has been a long-running complaint of users and authors.
> The look of it, the content of it, and the way that people find it. We
> are looking to resolve all of that and we've made quite a lot of
> progress but we need help. There's a ton of work going into the
> infrastructure and website right now so if you want to be a part of it
> please speak up!
>
> This is a sample of where we are going with it (the stylesheets have
> not been worked on yet):
>
> https://antora.cppalliance.org/doc/html/mp11/mp11/list.html
>
> https://antora.cppalliance.org/doc/html/contributor-manual/intro.html
>
> Thank you for considering it !
>
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