Working on a style guide
Matthew East
mdke at ubuntu.com
Sun Jun 14 15:10:31 UTC 2009
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Phil Bull<philbull at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm currently at WOSCON [1]. Loads of great stuff has been going on,
> which I'll share at a later date, but the first thing I want to discuss
> is our lack of a style guide. I've been talking to a professional
> writer, Lynda Chiotti [2], about how we could help new contributors
> create really good docs, and it seems that a good style guide is pretty
> much essential. She has offered to help us write one up - how does this
> sound to others?
It sounds good, but don't we already have a style guide? Wouldn't it
be better to work on identifying the weaknesses in the existing one
and improving it rather than writing a new one from scratch?
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Matthew East
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