[Scons-users] About contributing to your project

[Michael Potter]

"they are looking at the manpage and the users guide would be a better"

That is ringing a bell.

Maybe the solution is to cross link them?

I will probably work on scons again sometime in the spring of 2023.   I am
trying to add COBOL support.

There is a group trying to add COBOL as a first class language in the gcc
tool chain and this would be my contribution.  (note, the new gCOBOL <>
GnuCOBOL.   they are different products.  GnuCOBOL is a transpiler (COBOL
-> C).

On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 6:43 AM Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
wrote:

> Michael,
>
> Do you have specific examples of parts of the SCons documentation which is
> out of date?
>
> Generally the only time we refer folks to different docs would be when
> they are looking at the manpage and the users guide would be a better
> resource or vice versa, or as Mats said when a user is looking an old
> version which they found via google or via  link from some other project
> and we refer them to the current version (or in some cases if they are
> using an older version of SCons, to the correct docs for that version).
> -Bill
>
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 1:04 PM Michael Potter <pottmi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Here are two things that I think would be beneficial to get done for
>> someone new to the project:
>>
>> Get the documentation up to date.
>>
>> The context of that question is: historically, I have asked a question
>> about documentation and someone will tell me that doc is old and I should
>> be using different documentation.
>>
>> This is a common issue with open source projects: The doc gets stale or
>> needs to reference the version that the doc is good for.
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 3:51 PM Mats Wichmann <mats at wichmann.us> wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/3/22 11:48, Avichal Mishra wrote:
>>> > Hey there,
>>> > I am Avichal. I am very curious after I saw that this project is
>>> > written in Python.
>>> > I am ready to contribute to it.
>>> > Please let me know which are areas I can contribute to and how I can
>>> > contribute.
>>>
>>>
>>> As with many projects, there's a file in the main repository that
>>> intends to provide a bit of an introduction to the particular
>>> contribution process here.
>>>
>>> https://github.com/SCons/scons/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst
>>>
>>> That might be worth a read....
>>>
>>> Note that the whole SCons project is more than just the one repository
>>> named "scons", you can look one level up (https://github.com/SCons) for
>>> the others.
>>>
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