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Documentation
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Welcome to the meta section of our documentation where we document how to do documentation!
Edit or add. That's the primary instruction. You can edit directly on `gitlab.com/agaric/documentation <https://gitlab.com/agaric/documentation>`_ (for example, the edit link on this page takes you to `gitlab.com/agaric/documentation/blob/master/documentation.rst <https://gitlab.com/agaric/documentation/blob/master/documentation.rst>`_). If you aren't a member of Agaric, GitLab will helpfully offer to fork the documentation to your own namespace so that you can make a merge request with your documentation suggestion.
.. note::
This documentation page is a good one to copy or refer to as an example for ReStructuredText formatting. And of course anyone can come and clean up formatting later.
Where to post what
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We like `Gitlab's approach <https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/git-page-update/#where-should-content-go>`: If you're not sure where to put something in documentation, or if it even is documentation, `write a blog post <https://agaric.com/node/add/blog>`. Or even, in the Agaric context, just throw it in a `raw note <https://gitlab.com/agaric/resources/raw-notes>`.
Somewhere is better than nowhere.
Principles
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* Document closest to where people work:
* In README.md files or otherwise in the code repository for developers, .
* Abstract and link here
.. note::
In documentation we are living our `values <values>` of encouraging continuous learning, appreciating new ideas, giving back to the communities we are part of, and valuing long-term relationships.