[haiku-doc] Re: Conference/Moving Forward

  • From: "Niels Reedijk" <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:13:03 +0200

Hola,

2007/4/26, Sevik <sevik9@xxxxxxxxx>:
I would also like to do small things in order to get my feet wet, and
satisfy my own personal view of what should be in the docs :)   As an
example of something really small, I noticed that the BList::SortItems
method doc didn't indicate the integer value that the compare function,
which is passed to it, should return. While it may be obvious to many
(although I doubt to new programmers), and an example with strings is just
TWO clicks away, I think a description of the return value that is not
string-specific would be appropriate.

Go for it!

Another aside, is there any particular reason why the copyright information
is in a non-standard form? Normally, it would be:

Copyright (C) 2007 Haiku, Inc. All rights reserved.

Where (c) can also be a circle with a C in it -- &copy; in HTML; and no
comma after the year, and no caps on the 'rights reserved' part.

Currently, we have:

Copyright 2007, Haiku, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

I had a different copyright notice before this and changed it after
Axel's suggestion. I picked a file I know would have been touched by
Axel, however, it does not adhere to the set guidelines as defined by
the code guidelines. The coding guidelines give the following:
/*
* Copyright 2004-2006 Haiku Inc. All rights reserved.
* Distributed under the terms of the MIT License.
*/

So it's a middle way. I have updated the API guidelines to reflect
this (unless there are compelling arguments for not doing it this
way).

Niels

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