Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

Mike Kerner MikeKerner at roadrunner.com
Wed Apr 6 12:06:03 EDT 2016


The guides are a long read.  If I get up the motivation, I'm going to at
least try to work on them so it doesn't feel so much like work.

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Devin Asay <devin_asay at byu.edu> wrote:

>
> > On Apr 6, 2016, at 12:38 AM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 4/5/2016 10:26 AM, Mark Wieder wrote:
> >> But I do want to say that there's fascinating reading in
> >> https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/3518#issuecomment-205199749
> >
> > It's only fascinating if you understand all the jargon. I read it and
> came away with nothing but frustration. I have only the vaguest idea what
> half those terms mean and the screen shots are confusing.
> >
> > Where's this "guide" they talk about? And there's some kind of viewer?
> Where? Where are Ali's instructions for using the web interface? It took me
> forever just to find where the actual documentation files live. (Why are
> the doc files in the *engine* category? Wouldn't one logically look in the
> IDE category?)
> >
> > Pointers to instructions should be located prominently somewhere,
> ideally on the entry page. Github is a maze at best, novices shouldn't have
> to hunt for elusive instructions. I'm pretty sure someone here will give me
> a link, but that isn't going to help the next person.
>
> Ditto. Github for Dummies workshop at the LiveCode Dev Conference, anyone?
>
> Devin
>
>
> Devin Asay
> Office of Digital Humanities
> Brigham Young University
>
>
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