brew/docs/vale-styles/Homebrew/README.md

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last_review_date: "1970-01-01"
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# Vale Styles

Based on Homebrew's [Prose Style Guidelines](http://docs.brew.sh/Prose-Style-Guidelines.html).
Add a `last_reviewed_date` to docs metadata - At the AGM we formed an ad-hoc documentation working group. - One of our ideas was that we should have a last reviewed date for documentation, so that we can periodically implement a review mechanism (GitHub Actions posts to Slack for a regular documentation outdatedness check?) to track how old docs are and ensure they're still relevant. - This is a first step towards that goal, by adding a `last_review_date` to the metadata of all docs with a date of earlier than Homebrew's inception because everything needs reviewing so that we start from a good base! 2025-02-03 10:59:02 +00:00			`---`
			`last_review_date: "1970-01-01"`
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CI: add docs.yml With fixes for Markdown syntax to allow tests to pass. 2022-11-19 17:06:01 -05:00			`# Vale Styles`

Add Vale linting for our docs - I noticed that another open source project had taken the Homebrew style guide and made it into [Vale linting rules](https://github.com/testthedocs/vale-styles/tree/master/Homebrew). This copies them into here, so that we can make use of them. Thanks! - What use is a style guide if our own docs don't at least try to adhere to it? This aims to make the rules more visible to all contributors. - In order for these to do anything, you'll have to `brew install vale` and run `vale` in the root of this repo. It will look for Markdown files. - A next step would be adding this as a pre-commit hook, or... - The GitHub Action would have been really good, but [it doesn't support forks](https://github.com/errata-ai/vale-action#limitations). 2019-12-09 18:42:14 +00:00			`Based on Homebrew's [Prose Style Guidelines](http://docs.brew.sh/Prose-Style-Guidelines.html).`