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This week’s edition was edited by: GuillaumeGomez.

Latest news

The “More api documentation conventions” RFC has been merged!

Current opened issues

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

• The Standard Library Documentation Checklist
• Add error explanations for all error codes

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

There are currently around 50 other documentation issues opened. Look for A-docs tagged issues on github!

Call for participation

There’s now a call for participation to display all methods of a type, even those from implicit traits in rustdoc. This is a great way to help users find everything that a type can do. Any help on it would be very appreciated!

Waiting for merge

• @durka documented DoubleEndedIterator::next_back.
• @shepmaster improved {String,Vec}::from_raw_parts documentation.
• @xitep made .enumerate() example self-explanatory.
• @frewsxcv indicated where std::slice structs originate from and partially rewrote/expanded Vec::truncate documentation.
• @Manishearth clarified UnsafeCell docs.
• @estebank added a specific error message for missplaced doc comments.
• @GuillaumeGomez added examples for VecDeque and added examples for LinkedList.

Recent doc contributions

• @ollie27 fixed methods in seach results in rustdoc.
• @alexandermerritt made docs for clone_from_slice consistent with copy_from_slice.
• @izgzhen improved arc doc.
• @davidko fixed a few typos in The Book.
• @glandium added a mention to the fact that writeln! and println! always use LF.
• @wuranbo fixed ffi referenced rust-snappy which couldn’t compile.
• @frewsxcv added where std::vec structs originate from, made various std::process doc and added doc example for std::process::ExitStatus::success.
• @steveklabnik fixed up documentation around no_std.
• @tshepang made a few doc fixes.
• @GuillaumeGomez added examples for FpCategory and added libsyntax error code explanations.

Meetings

Next meeting will be on Wednesday 20th of July 2016 at 20:00 GMT on #rust-docs channel on irc.mozilla.org. Feel free to come!