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Documentation

Every good project deserves good documentation. Perhaps you'd like to help?

If yes, then this document is your starting point. Its job is to help you understand how you can best help us.

Requirements

To make shared work easier for the community, there are some requirements your contribution has to meet.

  • Written in Markdown
  • Easy to convert to HTML
  • Submitted by pull request

Creating Documentation for DTube

Possible areas of improvement:

  • Fixing mistakes (typos, poor wording)
  • Clarifying things which are confusing
  • Adding new sections/pages
  • Fixing broken links
  • Changing the structure where appropriate
  • Removing inconsistencies

Guidelines

Most things aren't set in stone, but it's good to have some basic guidelines for everyone to use.

Links instead of duplication

When you have a piece of information that applies generally, consider placing it in a general place. Ex.: DTube's official social media accounts. You could place links to our social media in a page you're working on, but that creates issues: now we have two places with the same or similar information.

If DTube opens another official account on a different platform, your information is now out of date. Worse even: the two sets of information may contradict one another, if something changes. Someone would have to remember to update both places and most likely this won't happen.

Remember: anyone can get any link to any page in the documentation at any time. The user needs (and deserves) a coherent, professional experience.

By using links, you're solving this problem. Now, that piece of information has to be updated in one place only. This makes the documentation much easier to maintain and expand.

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