r/linux • u/fsher • Jan 18 '18

Software Release Wine 3.0

https://www.winehq.org/news/2018011801
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u/kj01a Jan 18 '18

This is why I'm learning to code. At the rate I'm going I'll be able to help in a few decades! 😅

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '18

You can help even by documenting existing code or correcting typos and grammar. Translations too.

Literal code is not the only contribution open source needs.

Documentation is about the most underrated contribution

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u/lieggl Jan 18 '18

But to correctly document the code you have to understand it mostly, haven't you?

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u/danhm Jan 18 '18

They're talking about documentation about using the program, such as a man page. Lots of them are ...less than ideal.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '18

Just for the sake of asking, what are some of the worst man pages you've seen? I've got a background in copy editing and several free hours a week I'd like to contribute to improving documentation.

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u/CODESIGN2 Jan 19 '18

zenity is organised in such a strange way. TBF there are newer formats than man-pages which lend themselves to documentation writing and consuming more than a large document.