Attention to the community,

[Zebediah Beck]

I'm subscribed to different mailing lists of the community in connection
with my message here is my proposal or suggestion.

Good day sir/madam

I'm a long time debian user but am a first time user of the mailing list
and bug report systems, I would like that contribute technical doxygen
documentation to libbitcoin in the form of doctests and comments in thanks
for your tireless work on this magnificent ecosystem.

Thanks Zebb

[RL]

Post by Zebediah Beck
I'm subscribed to different mailing lists of the community in connection
with my message here is my proposal or suggestion.
Good day sir/madam
I'm a long time debian user but am a first time user of the mailing list
and bug report systems, I would like that contribute technical doxygen
documentation to libbitcoin in the form of doctests and comments in thanks
for your tireless work on this magnificent ecosystem.

According to https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libbitcoin that library is
not in Debian since 2018 so maybe better to pick something else - for
example, there seems to be a Debian cryptocoin team
https://tracker.debian.org/teams/cryptocoin/ who may like help, if that
is your interest

Adding technical documentation is usually best done via the upstream
project because it is generally not Debian-specific, needs to be kept in
sync with upstream changes.

Debian-specific documentaiton tends to be less technical (debconf
prompts, release-notes, installation guides etc)

[Zebediah Beck]

Wonderful thanks that is well and good with me, please explain why
libbitcoin was removed from Debian in 2018?

I would like to also contribute these less technical documentation as I
seek to contribute full-time to the community

Best Zebb

Post by Zebediah Beck

Post by Zebediah Beck
I'm subscribed to different mailing lists of the community in connection
with my message here is my proposal or suggestion.
Good day sir/madam
I'm a long time debian user but am a first time user of the mailing list
and bug report systems, I would like that contribute technical doxygen
documentation to libbitcoin in the form of doctests and comments in

thanks

Post by Zebediah Beck
for your tireless work on this magnificent ecosystem.

According to https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libbitcoin that library is
not in Debian since 2018 so maybe better to pick something else - for
example, there seems to be a Debian cryptocoin team
https://tracker.debian.org/teams/cryptocoin/ who may like help, if that
is your interest
Adding technical documentation is usually best done via the upstream
project because it is generally not Debian-specific, needs to be kept in
sync with upstream changes.
Debian-specific documentaiton tends to be less technical (debconf
prompts, release-notes, installation guides etc)

[RL]

Post by Zebediah Beck
Wonderful thanks that is well and good with me, please explain why
libbitcoin was removed from Debian in 2018?

Here's how you can find this:

find the package on https://tracker.debian.org/ (search for libbitcoin)
follow links to https://bugs.debian.org/906801 which says "Please remove
libbitcoin from unstable: It is unused in Debian."

Post by Zebediah Beck
I would like to also contribute these less technical documentation as I
seek to contribute full-time to the community

I suggest that the way to contribute in English is to:
- find something that needs improving, (wrong/missing/confusing documentation/etc)
- work out how to improve it (requires own research and translating of existing documentation
into something readable by non-experts)
- submit proposed text to this list for comments (follow the
tips at http://jbr.me.uk/linux/esl.html for writing style advice)
- make changes in response and resubmit
- when no more comments, send the final text as a bug report and merge request via salsa.

non-English speakers can presumably skip the second step and translate
existing text from English

[Zebediah Beck]

Awesome great to chat with you about this

Best Zebb

Post by RL

Post by Zebediah Beck
Wonderful thanks that is well and good with me, please explain why
libbitcoin was removed from Debian in 2018?

find the package on https://tracker.debian.org/ (search for libbitcoin)
follow links to https://bugs.debian.org/906801 which says "Please remove
libbitcoin from unstable: It is unused in Debian."

Post by Zebediah Beck
I would like to also contribute these less technical documentation as I
seek to contribute full-time to the community

- find something that needs improving, (wrong/missing/confusing documentation/etc)
- work out how to improve it (requires own research and translating of
existing documentation
into something readable by non-experts)
- submit proposed text to this list for comments (follow the
tips at http://jbr.me.uk/linux/esl.html for writing style advice)
- make changes in response and resubmit
- when no more comments, send the final text as a bug report and merge request via salsa.
non-English speakers can presumably skip the second step and translate
existing text from English