From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: David Masterson <dsmasterson@outlook.com>
Cc: "35261@debbugs.gnu.org" <35261@debbugs.gnu.org>,
35261-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35261: 26.1; EBDB Documentation
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 17:00:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k1fpeeaa.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BYAPR07MB5734823D29B83E533A50840CA5270@BYAPR07MB5734.namprd07.prod.outlook.com> (David Masterson's message of "Fri, 19 Apr 2019 22:31:51 +0000")
On 04/19/19 22:31 PM, David Masterson wrote:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> On 04/17/19 03:41 AM, David Masterson wrote:
>
>>> Beyond this, I can see that lots of documentation (and, I assume,
>>> functionality) is still needed:
>>>
>>> 1. Installation details of EBDB and related tools.
>>> 2. Details on what type of records a database is composed of.
>>> 3. Details on the fields of a record.
>>> 4. Details on the type of a field.
>>> 5. Import/Export functionality
>>> 6. Hooks for add-ons
>>>
>>> * By 'details', I mean some Emacs Elisp and not just English to give us
>>> real reference information.
>>
>> EBDB is only just stabilizing (the export stuff went through some big
>> refactoring just recently) and I'm a little hesitant to lay all this
>> stuff out in the manual. One of the long-term goals is definitely to
>> make EBDB programmable and integratable with other packages, but I'm
>> dragging my feet a little bit until I'm more confident that the API
>> won't change. It'll get there, though.
>
> Okay. Mostly consider #1 with:
>
> * Installation as a package (and via savanah?)
> * How to get help if needed (bug reports)
> * Other packages to install/Use (Org and Gnus)
>
> A primer as applies to EBDB for #2, #3, and #4 would be nice.
Done! Thanks for all the suggestions.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-20 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-13 21:26 bug#35261: 26.1; EBDB Documentation David Masterson
2019-04-14 1:50 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-04-15 3:50 ` David Masterson
2019-04-15 5:07 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-04-15 20:56 ` David Masterson
2019-04-16 18:54 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-04-17 3:14 ` David Masterson
2019-04-18 19:51 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-04-19 22:22 ` David Masterson
2019-04-16 21:10 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-04-17 3:41 ` David Masterson
2019-04-18 20:33 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-04-19 22:31 ` David Masterson
2019-04-20 0:00 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2019-04-21 2:08 ` David Masterson
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