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Conquering documentation challenges on a massive project
Given the recent surge in popularity of open source data science projects like pandas, NumPy, and Matplotlib, it’s probably no surprise that the increased level of interest is generating user complaints about documentation. To help shed light on what’s at stake, we talked to someone who knows a lot about the subject: Thomas Caswell, the lead developer of Matplotlib.
Matplotlib is a flexible and customizable tool for producing static and interactive data visualizations since 2001 and is a foundational project in the scientific Python stack. Matplotlib became a NumFOCUS-sponsored project in 2015.
Tom has been working on Matplotlib for the past five years and got his start answering questions about the project on Stack Overflow. Answering questions became submitting bug reports, which became writing patches, which became maintaining the project, which ultimately led to him becoming the lead developer.
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Grokkin' the [kubernetes] Docs
It’s common for large open source projects to have information scattered around various repos or duplicated between repos. Sometimes groups work in silos, and information is not shared. Other times, a person leaves to work on a different project without passing on specialized knowledge. Documentation gaps exist and may never be rectified because of higher priority items. So new contributors may have difficulty finding basic information, such as meeting details.
Attending SIG Docs meetings is a great way to become involved. However, people have had a hard time locating the meeting URL. Most new contributors ask in the #sig-docs channel, but I decided to locate the meeting information in the docs. This required several clicks over multiple pages. How many new contributors miss meetings because they can’t locate the meeting details?
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Change GTK Theme To Dark Variant When GNOME Night Light Is On
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OpenShift 4.2 vSphere Install Quickstart
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How to display your root folder in the sidebar of your file manager on KaOS
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How to Install Python 3.8 on Ubuntu 18.04
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Mirroring a running system into a ramdisk
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Notes on BPF (7) - BPF, tc and Generic Segmentation Offload
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Ish Sookun: Understand networking in Podman
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