TL;DR

This week the Clojure documentation project added two new materials and a bunch of minor edits all over the place. The new additions are

Clojure Documentation Progress Report

The Clojure Documentation Site (a.k.a. CDS) publishes periodic reports (every week so far, possibly two weeks in the future) to give the Clojure community a better idea of what CDS shapes up to be and what it has to offer.

This is a report for the week ending November 11th, 2012.

New Content

New tuturials added this week:

New guides added this week:

Updates

Existing tutorials updated this week:

Existing guides updated this week:

Most of of other edits here are not listed above because they are purely grammar and spelling fixes.

Thank You, Contributors

CDS would not be possible without the following people who make the Clojure community a better place:

  • Alex Petrov
  • Gareth Jones
  • Glen Stampoultzis
  • John Gabriele
  • Lee Hinman
  • Leonel Gayard
  • Michael Klishin
  • Swaroop C H
  • Wes Freeman

You Can Help!

How It Works

We have a repository on GitHub that has Markdown files with content and toolchain setup instructions. Just pick something that you are very familiar with or interested in and write.

When you are done, submit a pull request on GitHub and someone from the existing contributors team will suggest improvements or merge your work. It is that easy.

In order to make it easier for potential contributors to join the project, we will post a brief list of guides that do not require deep expertise and can benefit from contributions by complete beginners.

Existing Guides

Guides that have structure and good chunk of the content in place but still have holes you can help us plug:

New Content

If you want to start working on one of those articles or have existing content you’ve authored that can be ported, please let us know on the Clojure mailing list.

Excited about making Clojure documentation better? We need your help!

Michael Klishin on behalf of the Clojure Documentation Team.