Re: ActiveState seeking Lua community feedback

[Paul Merrell <marbux@...>]

On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com> wrote:

> IMHO, a far more interesting topic than ActiveStates marketing is
> their offer to provide some support to the community. Perhaps someone
> invested in the documentation, infrastructure or hosting of various
> resources could point out where the Lua community could use some
> commercial support? For me items like monetary contributions,
> mirroring and paid developer time come to mind? I think a Lua
> conference in Vancouver would be awesome (probably not practical
> though).

Thanks for pointing that out, Russ. I had missed that.

I'll again raise my suggestion of an online copy of the Reference
Manual with each section as a separate page that can be edited
wikilike with annotations, links to definitions, links to tutorials on
the lua-users.org wiki, example code, etc.

The Reference Manual is great for experienced programmners but its
vocabulary is far too specialized for lay and novice scripters. For
them, the Manual needs elaboration.

I would personally devote a fairly large block of time to such a
project. I have lots of experience in writing software technical
documentation. But it would need moderation for accuracy by
experienced programmers. (I don't count myself in that class.)

Best regards,

Paul


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