That took longer than expected… Apparently BountySource require the creation of an account with them, so we’ve set up an alternate payment option for those of you who prefer not to.

Details here: bountysource.com/teams/st-undocs/fundraiser

Where is the alternate pay method? I either have to set up an account with this Bounty thing or sign in with ‘social media’ crap. I don’t do social. I have a paypal account. I have a Kickstarter account. I don’t need lots of other accounts. Please make it easy to donate directly.

Hi rbl100,

In the fundraiser’s main page, there’s now a link to a Pledgie campaign under ‘Other Payment Options’ that should let you donate using only your PayPal account (perhaps you need to refresh your browser’s cache?). Later on there will be plain PayPal and Gittip options for one-off and continued support of the Unofficial Docs, but for this fundraiser we want the collected amount to be visible for everyone, and that’s what BountySource and Pledgie enable us to do.

bountysource.com/teams/st-undocs/fundraiser

That would not be a problem if they would actually use the freakin data that they get back from github!

*(http://i.imgur.com/mRxG0Wt.png)

For some reason they think i’m registering with another service just to start filling a new form?

(on the other hand, pledgie worked just fine. Click, click, done.)*

[quote=“guillermooo”]Hi rbl100,

In the fundraiser’s main page, there’s now a link to a Pledgie campaign under ‘Other Payment Options’ that should let you donate using only your PayPal account (perhaps you need to refresh your browser’s cache?). Later on there will be plain PayPal and Gittip options for one-off and continued support of the Unofficial Docs, but for this fundraiser we want the collected amount to be visible for everyone, and that’s what BountySource and Pledgie enable us to do.

bountysource.com/teams/st-undocs/fundraiser[/quote]

OK, done. Hope it helps.

[quote=“FichteFoll”]push

(also I can monitor the threads I posted in now and don’t need to check this thread separately)[/quote]

How?

[quote=“jbrooksuk”]
How?[/quote]

search.php?search_id=egosearch

Ha! I’ve posted in four threads and apparently killed all four.

Um, sorry about this thread…

Don’t worry, I’ve killed far more than that.

We’re still only 16% into our goal. We will work on the issues even if the fundraiser does not raise the full amount, but it will take longer. Tell your friends and consider donating $5 yourself. Those tens of thousands of readers could easily reach 4000 by donating less than half a dollar, but that won’t be enough for eventual fees and the minimum is $5 anyway.

Donated! I hope the money will help you out

Niklas

This is important… so bump!

The countdown has started — 10 days to go! We’re slightly behind our goal, but we’ll persevere.

Just to reiterate what FichteFoll said: we’ll keep working on the undocs in any case; just at a slower pace.

Big thanks to all the backers so far. We hope to be able to give you back something you find useful.

bountysource.com/teams/st-undocs/fundraiser

+50$
Great job and I’m very excited for the improvements!

Thanks lefoy!

+$50.

Important task indeed. Best of luck with raising the required amount.

Do you accept pull requests for the docs? I’m not interested in paying more for docs intended to patch up gaping holes in a product I’ve already paid for, but I agree with the criticisms of the writing style here and I would enjoy taking a crack at some of the prose.

Hi valrus,

PRs are welcome, but we can’t promise they will be merged. If your only motivation is to impose your own style over the existing one because you don’t find it to your liking, it’s better not to. That said, factual corrections, grammar, typos, new content and stuff along those lines is more likely to get accepted.

We are very likely going to revise all of the existing docs and the general style, including phrasing, structure and the like; and then add more. Of course, you are free to submit a pull request at any time, but it might be entirely possible that we won’t accept it at all (because we don’t agree with you, but the same applies to all kinds of PRs) or that in the end the text will be completely different because we revised it later.

We currently have a lot of open PRs but they are all going to be merged or closed very soon.

Hi dwightr,

The only claim we can make is that they are more complete that the documentation available on this site. Nobody asked us to create them, but at the time it seemed a better idea than running in circles on this forum asking the same questions time and again.

I’m sorry to hear that you think they are bad in the main, but the whole point of this campaign is to find an additional incentive to improve the unofficial docs using our own private time. If you can point out specific shortcomings, we’ll have a chance to make changes as appropriate.

If you want better docs from Sublime Hq, it looks like you’ll have to wait. If you want better unofficial docs, you can contribute in many ways now.

Today’s the closing day for the campaign. Many, many thanks once more to all backers!

The two authors of the unofficial docs deserve our full support and have done a great job so far. I hope that they see the current level backing as an indicator of community support even when it does not reach their full goal.