Rewriting the documenter intro

Olle Jonsson <[email protected]> Fri, 2 Mar 2007 22:58:33 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.ruby.documentation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dear documenters,

I browsed ruby-doc.org, learnt some things, and wanted to give back  
to the community.

These out-of-date guidelines could use some love.
http://www.ruby-doc.org/documentation-guidelines.html

So, I began typing a changed document.
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcm4sxp6_0ff35wc

My question now is: Are the svn diff notes too bland, or do they need  
the sharpness that the previous CVS notes had? I.e. are SVN's default  
settings smart enough?

Why am doing it? I found that I wanted to add a couple of lines of  
general explanation to racc and racc/parser, which are...  
undescribed. So, all this fiddling is about getting the following  
note into the docs.

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racc is the runtime module for parsers generated by [Racc (Ruby yACC)] 
(http://i.loveruby.net/en/projects/racc/), which is a LALR(1) parser  
generator for Ruby.

(The license note about distributing the code for the racc module is  
obsolete by Ruby 1.8, which includes that code in the standard library.)
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But, I'll follow the normal channels to get this little note into the  
source code.

best regards,
    and thanks for the Great Job you do,
    Olle Jonsson, Copenhagen