This Week in Rust Docs 103

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This week’s edition was edited by Guillaume Gomez.

Latest news

We added settings into generated documentation so you can have your own setup. We’ll add more options soon to make rust documentation browsing more personal and comfortable for everyone!

Current opened issues

For now, here are the three big issues for Rust documentation:

They all need help to move forward so any contribution is very welcome!

There are currently around 70 other documentation issues opened. Look for T-doc tagged issues on GitHub!

Waiting for merge

@QuietMisdreavus moved the “important traits” button to beside the type in rustdoc.
@sgrif removed the “leak check” in favor of “universes”.
@ecstatic-morse rewrote docs for std::ptr.
@da-x included scope names in diagnostics.
@Phlosioneer clarified the difference between get_mut and into_mut for OccupiedEntry.
@ibabushkin refactored auto trait handling in librustdoc to be accessible from librustc.
@Manishearth added edition-gated keywords and used enum for approximate suggestions.
@z4v1er fixed typo.
@rizakrko added missing implementation hint.
@mulkieran made some documentation fixes for the Write trait.
@kornelski buried Error::description().
@GuillaumeGomez stabilized short error format, prevented infinite recursion of modules in rustdoc, added query search order check and made some rustdoc improvements.

Recent doc contributions

@PramodBisht fixed doc comments present after a particular syntax error cause an unhelpful error message to be output.
@ecstatic-morse added doc links to std::os extension traits.
@steveklabnik added “the Rustc book”.
@andjo403 made rustdoc tests follow the jobserver limit of threads.
@dmizuk marked ptr::Unique with #[doc(hidden)].
@ralfbiedert added missing . in docs.
@GuillaumeGomez added repeat method on slice, added rustdoc settings menu, fixed search bar bug, fixed search load page failure, added setting to go to item if there is only one result, added more doc aliases and made js improvements.

Meetings

Next meeting will be on Tuesday 1st of May 2018 at 19:00 UTC on #rust-docs channel on irc.mozilla.org. Feel free to come!

Written on April 29, 2018