Re: Google Season of Docs

From: Cem Bassoy (cem.bassoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-04-23 07:51:13

Am Do., 23. Apr. 2020 um 04:24 Uhr schrieb Damian Vicino via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]>:

> I think working in moving documentation from one tech used for writing it
> to another (ie. docbook to asciidoc) its not well tailored for a GSOD
> project.
>

You are right, although I have seen in some project that it was the main
part.

> A good highschool student with enough motivation to do a lot of copy paste
> and formatting can do that during a google code-in project (or many).
> Also, after years of following this list I'm pretty sure we will not get
> half the maintainers to agree in a single tech to document anything.
>

Agree.

> If we get a professional documenter, which is what GSOD provides, it should
> be for something where a good writer is required skill. ie. tutorials, new
> docs, completing docs with missed pieces of it. Analysing and fixing
> consistency in the writing across all libraries, etc...
>

So you are thinking about a contribution for Boost not single libraries in
general?

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