From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2008-08-09T17:27:45+09:00
Subject: Re: perl and the culture of libraries

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Shadowfirebird <shadowfirebird@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there anything we can do on RubyForge to encourage people with
> documentation-writing skills to contribute, and to match them up with
> projects that need documentation?

Some sort of coverage report would be neat. This (yet again) gets back
to my idea of having a few standardised documentation sections as a
baseline - there's a quick, automated way to report which projects are
missing which sections. Once that was done, people could scan the
list, find a missing section they felt like contributing, and do so.

A complicating factor is that on CPAN one project corresponds to one
module/program, whereas on rubyforge there are often multiple packages
under the umbrella of a single project.

martin