Re: [PATCH 13/17] docs: add Rust documentation

Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-06T00:07:05Z

On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 7:02 AM Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote:
>
> Miguel, the wording and style in this file is not much welcome, it looks
> like a copy-paste of an e-mail in the doc. The exclamation above "this is
> a very good news" doesn't really belong to a doc, and for readers who don't
> understand why it appears as a good news to the writer, it probably is an
> even less good news.

Yes, I can definitely be more formal here.

> In general you should avoid "we" and "you" when writing documentation.
> Prefer passive forms instead, which do not place a barrier between those
> who teach and those who learn. It's generally considered more inclusive
> in that it makes the reader not feel outside of the team who wrote it.

When I was writing this, I wondered the same thing, because in Spanish
this does look quite bad (in the sense of being too informal), and we
use the passive forms a lot more for things like this. So I am fine
rewriting this. Also, mixing we/you is not ideal either.

Having said that, I am not sure about English and whether people
prefer to read text with the passive form or not. In `Documentation/`
there seems to be a lot of "we"s and "you"s, but they could be wrong
too, of course.

> An additional note is that if the language imposes such unusual constraints
> on the editor, you should probably point to various known settins for most
> well-known editors.

Are you referring about style? If yes, it is possible to write the
code with a text editor with no extra features and then format it, so
that should not be a problem.

> You should also clearly indicate how to recheck (or adjust) individual
> files, not just say that the command supports it.

Sounds good -- I will do that.

Thanks a lot for reviewing the docs!

Cheers,
Miguel