From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Volunteering for Emacs documentation Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:30:23 +0300 Message-ID: <83wq1b8b5c.fsf@gnu.org> References: <21808.45813.600878.641780@mail.eng.it> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429255847 9037 80.91.229.3 (17 Apr 2015 07:30:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 07:30:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Gian Uberto Lauri Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 17 09:30:39 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Yj0jT-0005OU-Uk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2015 09:30:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39893 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yj0jS-0001cL-TA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2015 03:30:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51243) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yj0jP-0001bq-Ku for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2015 03:30:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yj0jK-0007KO-9a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2015 03:30:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout26.012.net.il ([80.179.55.182]:43326) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yj0jK-0007Jw-29 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2015 03:30:26 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout26.012.net.il by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NMX00400WU8RD00@mtaout26.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:31:52 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NMX00MNIWX4Z360@mtaout26.012.net.il>; Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:31:52 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <21808.45813.600878.641780@mail.eng.it> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:185516 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 09:15:01 +0200 > From: "Gian Uberto Lauri" > > There was a discussion on emacs-devel@gnu.org were it was said that > volunteers were velcomed to work on Emacs manual and doc strings. > (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2015-04/msg00216.html). > > What should one of these volunteers do to be useful? One way of contributing to the documentation is to search the Emacs bug tracker for bugs related to documentation, like errors or inaccuracies in the manuals, and fix them. Another way is to add documentation for new features in the repository mentioned in NEWS without either a "+++" or "---" marker. Yet another way is to read the discussions which indicate that some piece of documentation needs to be improved, and do that. Thanks.