Macaulay2 / Macaulay2/M2

"Report" button for documentation

Open
#1,484 7 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

A pull request for this has already been merged.

  • #1454 by @mahrud — merged
Documentation
Dominant language
Macaulay2
Stars
435
Forks
297
Avg merge
4d 20h
Merged PRs (30d)
11

Description

It would be nice to have a report button on the online documentation so people can report issues without going through the trouble of emailing or making a github issue. It would also make it easy to go through a list of reported documentation issues quickly.

For instance, I just found a bug in `width(Net)`, which says:
> For a string, the width and the height are the same.

But this is so minor that even opening an issue seems like an overkill.

Contributor guide

No contributing guide indexed for this repository

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reviewing the online documentation context and the `width(Net)` entry mentioned as an example. Check linked pull request #1454 and the existing comment discussion before defining the scope; done would require an agreed reporting workflow that supports collecting and reviewing documentation issues.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Domain
documentation
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.