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This week’s edition was edited by Guillaume Gomez.

Latest news

Nothing.

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

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

Waiting for merge

• @Dowwie updated attributes.md - Last sentence updated to reflect support for custom attributes.
• @frewsxcv added basic documentation/examples for six unstable features..
• @tschottdorf improved wording in the -{W,A,F,D} options.
• @GuillaumeGomez added missing urls and small nits, improved invalid call on non-function error message, fixed invalid module suggestion, added ref suggestion and replaced hoedown with pulldown in rustdoc.

Recent doc contributions

• @wesleywiser improved the style of the sidebar in rustdoc output.
• @jdhorwitz helped people find String::as_bytes() for UTF-8.
• @steveklabnik added unstable book to the bookshelf and extracted nomicon to its own repo.
• @estebank cleaned up “pattern doesn’t bind x” messages, pointed to enclosing block/fn on nested unsafe and fixed incorrect span label formatting.
• @est31 fixed description of closure coercion feature.
• @brson added release notes for 1.16.
• @bjorn3 improved docs of rusty parts of typeck.
• @Nashenas88 fixed missing backtick typo.
• @oli-obk fixed a typo in the docs.
• @sinkuu fixed suggestion span error with a line containing multibyte characters.
• @DirkyJerky clarified docs in VecDeque::resize.
• @tbu- distinguished the ways CStr::from_bytes_with_nul can fail, documented why str.to_{lower,upper}case return String and clarified handling of src in ptr::write.
• @Mark-Simulacrum fixed normalization error.
• @crazymerlyn updated link to COMPILER_TESTS.md in CONTRIBUTING.md.
• @joelgallant made some README formatting in configure/make section.
• @mmatyas fixed text formatting in README.
• @malbarbo removed extra space in test description (of a mod test).
• @oconnor663 clarified docs for Args and ArgsOs.
• @GuillaumeGomez fixed associated consts display, added missing example for Display::fmt, cleaned up rustdoc css and added missing urls in some macros doc.

Meetings

Next meeting will be on Wednesday 15th of March 2017 at 20:00 GMT on #rust-docs channel on irc.mozilla.org. Feel free to come!