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InfluxData's documentation is open source. We strongly encourage (and value!) any contributions from the community.
Contributions include:
- General content improvement: typo fixes and sentence clarifications
- New content: documentation for new features and guides for common use cases
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All of our documentation is written in Markdown. If you're not a Markdown expert but you have content to contribute, feel free to submit a PR and we'll help you out with the formatting.
We use semantic linefeeds. Separating each sentence with a new line makes it easy to parse diffs with the human eye.
Diff without semantic linefeeds:
-Data are taking off. Those data are time series. You need a database that specializes in time series. You should check out InfluxDB.
+Data are taking off. Those data are time series. You need a database that specializes in time series. You need InfluxDB.Diff with semantic linefeeds:
Data are taking off.
Those data are time series.
You need a database that specializes in time series.
-You should check out InfluxDB.
+You need InfluxDB.In general, we try to keep our writing style approachable and easy to understand.