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Programmer Looking for people that want to help create descriptions for all current lua functions and enums

Do you think it is a good idea to create a community based description of code functionality?


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Simbaclaws

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The title says it all,

What I am looking for is a team or basically a community effort that helps the community by creating descriptions of Primary functions, Secondary functions and Enums.

My idea is the following: having a shared excel file hosted on something like google drive where everyone* can chip in their 5 cents worth of knowledge.

So what will happen is: Information will be created for everyone so that it's easy to find out what you are looking for.
What I want to do as soon as the excel sheet starts to get some actual data is then create a script that converts the input of everything inside of it into xml files for programs that have code autocompletion.

This way we can create scripts for different kinds of programs like notepad++, sublime, atom, vim, eclipse etc.
We would then basically have a library of function calls and enums with an informative format that will be displayed while you are typing and autocompletes you.

I would like to have this sort of functionality for the current 1.x versions of tfs.
We could also create excel sheets for older versions that does the same, but I would like to stick with a more recent version so far.

*: of course there needs to be some form of moderation so we could limit accessability to specific people that moderate the file.

We could also use a newly created thread to have people reply descriptions on functions and then a few would update the excel sheet with what's said in that thread.

Before you start shouting out descriptions, let's first see who is up for the task of moderation and who would like to help out. (I'm sorry I can't offer you a salary, I don't have that much money and I would like to see this as a community effort rather then a job offer)

I will also start a poll in this thread where you can leave your opinion on the entire idea. Simple, should we do this? yes or no.


If too many people dissagree with the idea I will try to at least create a code autocompletion for eclipse myself. (Although I have almost nil knowledge of what each function does, but most can be guessed.)
 
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