Hello and welcome to This Week in Rust Docs!

This Week in Rust Docs is openly developed on GitHub. If you find any errors in this week’s issue, please submit a PR.

This week’s edition was edited by: GuillaumeGomez.

Why this newsletter?

There isn’t an official Rust docs team yet, but several of us have decided to start working as a team, even though it’s not official. Here’s what we’ll be working on:

Working on the front-end part of rustdoc.

Working on error code explanations.

Improving Rust documentation.

Improving the Rustbook (also known as “The Book”).

Since documentation is a really important part of Rust, why not keep people up-to-date about what’s happening?

Latest news

In the two last weeks, we opened two RFCs:

Once they’re approved, the work on Rust documentation will certainly increase again. They both intend to normalize how to write specific documentation. Please take a look at them. :)

Current opened issues

For now, here are the issues opened for Rust documentation:

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

Recent doc contributions

@GuillaumeGomez worked on both rustdoc front-end and documentation improvements. @Steveklabnik worked on The Standard Library Documentation Checklist RFC.

Meetings

Next meeting will be on Wednesday 13rd of April 2016 at 20:00 GMT on #rust-docs channel on irc.mozilla.org, feel free to come!