From: daz <dooby@...10.karoo.co.uk>
Date: 2005-10-15T08:46:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Write Ruby Docs? (was Re: [SUMMARY] Text Image (#50))


Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> Kev Jackson wrote:
>
> > [...] to get working on them I'd need to [...]
>
> If you have a patch, email it to me and/or James Gray.
>
> Thanks for any help, and feel free to ask any questions.
>
> Cheers,
> Gavin
>


/**********************************************************************

  iconv.c -

  $Author: nobu $
  $Date: 2005/03/27 23:40:02 $
  created at: Wed Dec  1 20:28:09 JST 1999

  All the files in this distribution are covered under the Ruby's
  license (see the file COPYING).

  Documentation by Yukihiro Matsumoto and Gavin Sinclair.

**********************************************************************/


Is there a case for having a $Doc: Name $ in the header ?

Perhaps also a standard way to add contributors names to doc updates
which doesn't wipe out the original documentor's name (as seems to
happen with $Author: Name $ in many patched core files).

The main reason for asking is that, if anyone is going to spend a deal
of time and effort on documentation, recognition should be recorded.
(I hope that's only obvious.)

It would give us somewhere to direct our appreciation, spiritually
(or, perhaps, e-mail-ially).

$Doc: Dave Thomas; gs; jeg; kj $  - which magically expands to HTML
links for each member on ruby-doc-squad-wiki.org might be possible
(later?).


daz