Documenting coding conventions for new comers.

[Jérémie Guichard]

Ok, I'll create the new section in CodingStyle. What about converting this
file (CodingStyle) to markdown format?

2018-04-09 16:44 GMT+02:00 Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org>:

>
> On Apr 9, 2018, at 3:26 AM, Miika Turkia <miika.turkia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> To cope with this I've prepared a change introducing a new CONVENTIONS.md
>> file that is meant to collect such information: https://github.co
>> m/Subsurface-divelog/subsurface/pull/1196 Any feedback is welcome. Since
>> it is the one convention I learned during a recent pull request I proposed,
>> I started with documenting the use of membuffer for string manipulations...
>>
>
> What is the distinction between the existing CodingStyle and the proposed
> CONVENTIONS.md? IMO, what you currently have there could have easily been
> included in the CodingStyle. Having all the essential information in single
> place sounds better for newcomers.
>
>
> I think I'll have to agree with Miika on this one. Fewer places to read
> through make it easier for people to find what they are looking for.
> One could of course argue that using membuffer and other such conventions
> technically aren't coding style, but I think with a slightly more liberal
> interpretation of that term... simply add a section called "Conventions" to
> the CodingStyle document and I think we will all be happier :-)
>
>
> Then if/when the currently discussed pull request would be approved it
>> would be nice to reflect these changes in the corresponding page on
>> https://subsurface-divelog.org. The question is: Was this page manually
>> edited in Subsurface-website repository or was it actually generated from
>> markdown? If so, is the script available somewhere?
>>
>> IIRC these are edited directly.
>
>
> The website is run on a WordPress instance that is synced (in a somewhat
> fragile manner) with a GitHub repo. So the sources for the page in question
> should be here:
>
> https://github.com/Subsurface-divelog/Subsurface-website/
> blob/master/_pages/contributing.en
>
> The translations of the website are unfortunately not as well maintained
> as one might hope (this is all volunteer work and it's tedious work...),
> but you can see the translations in the GitHub repo as well.
>
> /D
>
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