It has been quite some time since the original planned public beta launch in April.
There are still a number of unfixed bugs and feature requests unresolved.
The latest update was given around a month ago.
So,
Is there any planned timing on when public beta will launch in Stack Overflow.
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Hi all, thanks for the invite. Can anyone help me to find a clear explanation of the 'purpose' of the Documentation stack exchange? I'm finding it a little hard to create topics and add information as I feel I'm duplicating documentation elsewhere on the web.
I've asked 2 days ago about a specific topic (docs-beta.stackexchange.com/questions/954/…) and what people thought about it given a few items I wasn't sure about. Given that it received only a general (now deleted) answer I wanted to promote it here. But it's about python so maybe a bit specific. :)
I have almost completely forgotten everything I once knew about C. I used to be a kernel developer. You made me sad, Kevin. Very very sad. But I love the system :)
@MSeifert creating a heading inside remarks automatically creates an index of that section. You can then later edit that section. The box is the highlight for whichever section is being edited.
obviously don't troll for rep by making lots of tiny edits when you could've put a little more care into it and coalesced them, but also don't avoid making important edits because you feel they're too small
@Neal - I don't like all caps, maybe bold / italic is enough ? Also the header markup isn't working right, it shows the # http://docs-beta.stackexchange.com/documentation/proposed/changes/2975?draftId=3513
1. something prevents us from linking to sandbox 2. with a direct link one can approve edits that are retracted 3. moving one example can delete a topic even if there is another example 4. I don't know, anyone found something else?
I already noticed that moving an example somehow clutters the edit-history. Anyone knows if the original contributors get rep after the example was moved? Do they receive rep for upvotes on answers on topic-links for BOTH topics?
"Reputation earned on the Q&A portion of this site isn't going to be retained when we move back to Stack Overflow at the end of beta, so..." from docs-beta.stackexchange.com/a/437/622
@AdamLear, I think that should be made clearer somehow. For one, I'd usually assume that votes are anonymous - if it creates an improvement request (with my name attached ?), my downvote is no longer anonymous - it's sort-of visible to anyone who can see the improvement request. I think it also needs to tell me that it will actually create an improvement request when selecting one of those options - I had no idea until now. (I even created an improvement request by accident because I didn't know it would..)
So, @AdamLear, I read and pondered your response and it seems to me that you agree that those redundant and basic topics i mentioned shouldn't exist ("The point isn't to recreate existing good docs, it's to create good docs for things that don't currently have them. " etc.) So how do i request the removal of a topic and can i use your answer as a justification in my request?
The thing (err.. example) I'm writing now is starting to look a lot like a big tutorial. Are tutorial-style examples accepteable ? In this case, I can't really split it into smaller pieces.
We might migrate things to MSO from here that are either unresolved bug reports or discussions that would benefit from a wider audience. But there's not much point in migrating early bug reports for issues that were fixed or feature requests that were implemented.
@DanielM. No. Current plan is to abandon (most) of the Q&A here, move the actual docs to Stack Overflow, and then Meta Stack Overflow will be come the usual place to discuss bugs, features, etc. If/when we expand to other sites (other technical sites could potentially benefit from docs), Meta Stack Exchange would also be an option for discussions.
It has been quite some time since the original planned public beta launch in April.
There are still a number of unfixed bugs and feature requests unresolved.
The latest update was given around a month ago.
So,
Is there any planned timing on when public beta will launch in Stack Overflow.
...
A number of rather large new features have gone out recently.
New Navigation
The documentation "tiles" have been redesigned to make it easier to find existing topics, and to be a little lighter.
We've also resigned the navigation inside a tag's documentation - these tabs will be shown ever...
