From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Volunteering for Emacs documentation Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 10:36:46 +0200 Message-ID: <87d231estd.fsf@zigzag.favinet> References: <21808.45813.600878.641780@mail.eng.it> <83wq1b8b5c.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429346703 917 80.91.229.3 (18 Apr 2015 08:45:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 08:45:03 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 18 10:45:03 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 1YjON4-0001oX-O8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 10:45:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44954 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YjON4-00062o-7X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 04:45:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47726) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YjOMz-00062J-On for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 04:44:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YjOMw-00067C-FE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 04:44:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.agora-net.com ([67.59.132.6]:49657) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YjOMw-000672-Bz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 04:44:54 -0400 Original-Received: from ttn by mail.agora-net.com with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YjOMv-0004qQ-9I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 04:44:53 -0400 Original-Received: from ttn by zigzag.favinet with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YjOFF-00016q-9e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 10:36:57 +0200 Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <83wq1b8b5c.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:30:23 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ttn@gnuvola.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on mail.agora-net.com); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 67.59.132.6 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:185559 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable () Eli Zaretskii () Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:30:23 +0300 Yet another way is to read the discussions which indicate that some piece of documentation needs to be improved, and do that. Very true! Don't forget that for many people, an important piece of the document is its index. IMHO improving a document's index is qualitatively different enough to warrant mentioning as a task on its own. Bonus: it's easy to do and often does not trigger copyright assignment hair at the onset... (I have recently begun reading a lot of non-GNU documentation and appreciate all the more Emacs' well-indexed manuals -- some of the stuff i'm reading has no index at all! [Insert grumbling about blithe abdication of control to the panopticon here.]) =2D-=20 Thien-Thi Nguyen ----------------------------------------------- (if you're human and you know it) read my lisp: (defun responsep (type via) (case type (technical (eq 'mailing-list via)) ...)) =2D--------------------------------------------- GPG key: 4C807502 --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlUyF6EACgkQZwMiJEyAdQJe0wCfarWLQ8HGNFa63M3Lt71FVzS5 ud8An1wbTEL8nvDflFpheJP/6nEzOLJu =X0SM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--