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From: Steven Gill <stevengill97@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 12:08:07 -0800
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Subject: Re: [Input request] Rethinking Plugin docs
To: "dev@cordova.apache.org" <dev@cordova.apache.org>
Cc: Lisa Seacat DeLuca <ldeluca@us.ibm.com>,
 Michael Brooks <michael@michaelbrooks.ca>
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I personally think we should merge the two into README.md. Our readme files
in the plugins are useless right now. Might as well combine some of the
info that should be in the readme + index.md so we have all of the
important information shown prominently.


On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Andrew Grieve <agrieve@chromium.org>wrote:

> +Michael
>
> Might be helpful to write out expanded README.md files for our plugins.
> Right now, they just contain a title and a link to the docs:
> https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-file
>
> "What it is" is covered by the first paragraph of the docs already I think.
> "How to contribute" is pretty obvious for most github-hosted projects, but
> I don't think that would hurt as part of the documentation either.
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Brian LeRoux <b@brian.io> wrote:
>
> > I think Mike's main consideration is that the README.md is a place for
> > general project info (what it is, how to contribute, etc) whereas
> > documentation, inc translations, should be in a dedicated space as
> standard
> > convention so we can tool it. (Something like this: `doc/[lang]/index.md
> > `.)
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Andrew Grieve <agrieve@google.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > That was basically the question in my head as I was typing... I'd be
> > happy
> > > with having just a README.md, and allowing it to link to relative .md
> > paths
> > > if it wanted to.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Lisa Seacat DeLuca <
> ldeluca@us.ibm.com
> > >wrote:
> > >
> > >> If README.md is the standard why not just call all of them README and
> > not
> > >> have an index.md file at all for the plugins.  What is the advantage
> of
> > >> having both?  Seems more confusing than anything.
> > >>
> > >> Lisa Seacat DeLuca
> > >> Mobile Engineer | t: +415.787.4589 | *ldeluca@apache.org*<
> > ldeluca@apache.org>| |
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> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> From:        Andrew Grieve <agrieve@chromium.org>
> > >> To:        dev <dev@cordova.apache.org>
> > >> Date:        02/24/2014 01:41 PM
> > >> Subject:        Re: [Input request] Rethinking Plugin docs
> > >> Sent by:        agrieve@google.com
> > >> ------------------------------
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Marcel Kinard <cmarcelk@gmail.com>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> >
> > >> > On Feb 24, 2014, at 12:32 PM, Andrew Grieve <agrieve@chromium.org>
> > >> wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > > - We may also want to include README.md files in the translations.
> > >> > > doc/fr/index.md
> > >> > > doc/fr/README.md
> > >> >
> > >> > What content do you forsee being in README.md other than a
> > >> > table-of-contents to the languages? Or in other words, would it be
> > >> > public-facing content that could be collapsed in to the rest of the
> > >> plugin
> > >> > docs?
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >> On npmjs.org and on github, README.md's are the files that are shown
> > most
> > >> prominently. So, I speculate that many plugins will not provide a doc/
> > >> index.md, and instead provide only a README.md.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> >
> > >> > > - We don't need the version in the directory since we can use git
> > >> tags to
> > >> > > find old versions
> > >> >
> > >> > That makes sense.
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> >
>

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