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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.
• @GuillaumeGomez added missing urls and small nits, fixed invalid module suggestion, added ref suggestion and replaced hoedown with pulldown in rustdoc.

Recent doc contributions

• @frewsxcv added basic documentation/examples for six unstable features, made a few improvements to the core::hash top-level docs, added doc examples for OsStr, OsString, removed function invokation parens from documentation links and updated usages of ‘OSX’ (and other old names) to ‘macOS’.
• @tschottdorf improved wording in the -{W,A,F,D} options.
• @projektir using X headings #39850, removed doc about highlighting code in other languages #40301 and updated README.md to point to the correct doc location.
• @tshepang fixed some style issues.
• @llogiq fixed grammar format.
• @steveklabnik added sort_unstable to unstable book, linked core::slice to std::slice and removed incorrect feature from the 1.16 relnotes.
• @kevinmehall fixed documentation for Vec::dedup_by..
• @ericfindlay corrected very minor documentation detail about Unicode and Japanese.
• @wesleywiser fixed sidebar not extending to the bottom of the page.
• @tbu- reworded the non-dropping of src for ptr::write{,_unaligned}.
• @brson made docs required again.

Meetings

Next meeting will be on Wednesday 22nd of March 2017 at 20:00 GMT on #rust-docs channel on irc.mozilla.org. Feel free to come!