Documentation Beta

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Kevin Montrose

3:19 PM

another wave of beta invites has gone out

Dan Hulme

now just wait for everything to catch fire

Kevin Montrose

indeed

Dan Hulme

I found myself desperate for some pytest documentation yesterday.

Kevin Montrose

Been playing with Rust a little lately, and boy do I get angry about the layout of their docs. Tad biased though :|

We are starting to talk seriously about what (and when) a proper launch looks like. Still plenty of work to do though, so nothing too solid to share yet.

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Unihedron

6:35 PM

Apparently you can't submit an edit request while another non-conflicting edit is made on the same page.

Kevin Montrose

can only have one outstanding change per-topic from a single user, can retract from review and edit if you want to make updates

Unihedron

How do you view the history? docs-beta.stackexchange.com/documentation/java/92/… "Put each bit of syntax in a new list item" is a bit outrageous.

Kevin Montrose

click "xxx contributors" on the topic

Unihedron

thank you

Kevin Montrose

looks like default text that got included in the original draft

nuked it

Unihedron

6:47 PM

// anyone know where I can read up on more instructions on utilizing these statements?

Kevin Montrose

Q: November 19th New Features Announcement

It's been about a week since the private beta started, and I think it's time for a quick run down of new features introduced based on the feedback so far. Edit Notifications When in the editor, you'll now receive a little popup bar telling you when someone else is: editing the same Topic, respo...

discussion

^ it's one of the new features then

Unihedron

cool, well I just got an invitation :P

Kevin Montrose

yah

lots to catch up on

Unihedron

gte is greater than or equal, so there's gt (no equals)? I assume lte and lt then as well

with eq that's pretty much the entire set, or is there more?

Kevin Montrose

@JohnLBevan valid comparisons are gt, gte, lt, lte, eq, and neq. — Kevin Montrose ♦ Nov 24 '15 at 15:55

Unihedron

6:51 PM

thanks!

Kevin Montrose

it's mostly a display thing (will be surfaced some in search later), stacking them together basically chains them

and example from some dummy local data

the versions list is owned by the "Hello World" Topic

score

example

Hello World

Java is strongly, statically typed

11 contributors

edited Jan 21 at 9:50

Jens Schauder

2125

Unihedron

This is why I drink.

Kevin Montrose

hmmm

Unihedron

My progress is lost when I attempted to submit my new example, and doesn't appear to be recoverable. :P

Kevin Montrose

don't see an error server side, can you reproduce?

Unihedron

7:03 PM

Wait, the proposed edit appeared. docs-beta.stackexchange.com/documentation/proposed/changes/…

Nah, maybe it's because I clicked on submit twice too quickly.

Kevin Montrose

ahh, I bet we aren't disabling properly

editor code is pretty large, and pretty new (compared to the Q&A editor, which is freaking bulletproof at this point)

Unihedron

lol!

Kevin Montrose

we're actually on CommonMark too, so that's a fun new source of issues

Unihedron

That's a special kind of crazy. :P

Well, be my guest. I hope this works out.

JonasCz

Just got my invite email :-) Whohoo !

Unihedron

7:07 PM

The UI is a bit irritating to navigate through. :P

Then I think about how much hard work must have went through to make this functional, and I decided not to complain.

Unihedron

7:17 PM

@KevinMontrose: For the last line there, I have int[][] in the source with two pairs of brackets, and it shows fine in the preview, but when I submit it for review it becomes one pair.

Unihedron

7:45 PM

also: no notifications for automatic rejections

well it was fun, but the interface gets frustrating quickly. bye.

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intboolstring

8:53 PM

How do I get added to more languages?

Kevin Montrose

right now there are only 4 opened, [c#], [.net], [java], and [android]

this is a restriction that will go away as the beta gets closer to finished, by the time we're on SO it'll be possible to open Documentation for SO's top tags w/o an employee doing it.