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This week’s edition was edited by: GuillaumeGomez.

Latest news

The whole new error format landed! Take a look here for more information.

@peschakj posted Writing Documentation in Rust.

Current opened issues

For now, here are the two big issues opened 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!

Recent doc contributions

• @cramertj added explanation for E0389.
• @dfockler added explanation for E0374, E0375, E0376.
• @billyevans added explanation for E0505.
• @cramertj added explanation for E0504.
• @GuillaumeGomez added explanation for E0500, improved the help for the Makefile, added lifetime’s bounds display in generated documentation, added more details and examples in error codes and added compile-fail tests for error codes.

@birkenfeld continues his awesome work on rustdoc:

• display field types together with names in detailed docs
• do not panic all the way when lexing a source snippet fails
• inject #[macro_use] extern crate in doctests for macros
• remove artificial indentation of doctest code
• add a “primitive type reference” page

And once again, @GuillaumeGomez worked on the rustdoc CSS.

Meetings

Next meeting will be on Wednesday 18th of May 2016 at 20:00 GMT on #rust-docs channel on irc.mozilla.org, feel free to come!