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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear Federico,<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I am not sure that this users@ list in
the prefered one to talk about technical details to contribute to
Scilab development. dev@ should rather be targeted for this.
Please do not hesitate to subscribe also to this other list (if
not yet done).<br>
For the time being, and my last answer here, i reply in the body
of your message:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 17/11/2019 à 23:29, Federico Miyara
a écrit :<br>
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<font face="Courier New">Samuel,</font><br>
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<font face="Courier New">Would you please give me some extra
hints?<br>
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I'm quite serious about starting to contribute corrections and
improvements to some help pages, the only area where I feel
confident that I can put my two cents for the time being
(besides just detecting bugs).<br>
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I've been able to login, I arrive at this page:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://codereview.scilab.org/#/q/status:open"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://codereview.scilab.org/#/q/status:open</a><br>
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<p>Excellent! Now we can view your id in the list of possible
reviewers :-)</p>
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cite="mid:24eed7bb-77c1-08de-8fcd-632fde193a54@fceia.unr.edu.ar"><font
face="Courier New">There are many open subjects, of course none
of them matches the bug I've filed earlier:<br>
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<p>About fixing and improving the documentation: I use to open and
feed on a quite regular way a commit titled something like "<i>[doc]
Misc. fixes, typos and small improvements</i>".<br>
When you posted your messages, the last bag was just merged (after
being fed and pending for more than 8 months)<br>
(click on "merged" on the top left of the portal, and then on my
name in the "Owner" column).<br>
<br>
You can freely contribute to feed this commit. <br>
To add a editable file to the commit list of files :</p>
<ul>
<li>push the "Edit" button</li>
<li>then click on "add"</li>
<li>in the input field: start typing the beginning of the filename
you want to edit: you will see a proposed short list of the
first matches of your input. Add some characters up to find the
right file in the list:<br>
<img src="cid:part2.E63819D7.54C51A55@free.fr" alt=""
width="638" height="287"></li>
<li>Open the file. Update its content. Save and quit the file.</li>
<li>Then in the list, you will see the file.</li>
<li>Quit the edit mode</li>
<li>Click on the file: the changes that you have made are
highlighted.</li>
</ul>
<p>This simple procedure is OK only for small changes, or wider
changes that you have validated on your local computer (by
properly compiling heavily changed pages). <br>
In addition, it can't be used to add binary files (like images,
etc).</p>
<p>If you want more information, please get in touch with me or with
Stéphane in private (as he already answered). You may also get in
touch with Stanislav K, who uses to contribute via the CodeReview
interface for the Russian version of pages.</p>
<p>If you prefer having your own dedicated "bag of help
miscellanities", we can also open it for you.<br>
<br>
Best regards<br>
Samuel<br>
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PS : To locate a feature in a file among all Scilab sources file:
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<ul>
<li>Source files must be downloaded, preferably from the master
version of Scilab. GIT does it in an handy way, but you can also
do it by hand.<br>
</li>
<li>You need to use a local editor. If you work on Windows:
Notepad++ is an excellent choice, with its XML add-on. It is
able to search a feature in all files (or selected ones
according to some extension filter like *.xml *.sci etc) in a
given directory and all its subdirectories.</li>
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