[gimp-web/testing] Add draft of the 2.10 docs update call
- From: Alexandre Prokoudine <aprokoudine src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gimp-web/testing] Add draft of the 2.10 docs update call
- Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 20:03:36 +0000 (UTC)
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Author: Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>
Date: Mon May 23 23:02:59 2016 +0300
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+Title: Call for GIMP 2.10 Documentation Update
+Date: 2016-05-23
+Category: News
+Authors: Alexandre Prokoudine
+Status: draft
+Slug: gimp-2-10-docs-update-call
+Summary: For the past several months we've been working on GIMP mostly in the bugfix mode. It's time to
start updating the user manual for the upcoming release.
+
+With upcoming GIMP 2.10 release we intend to finally close the time gap between releases of source code,
installers, and the user manual. This means that we need a more coordinated effort between the GIMP
developers team and the GIMP User Manual team.
+
+For the past several months we've already been working on GIMP mostly in bugfix mode. It's time to start
updating the user manual to match all the changes in GIMP 2.10, and we would appreciate your help with that.
+
+## What Needs Doing
+
+* **Updating the content.** There have been a lot of changes since 2.8. For quite a while, we've been
maintaining a structured [list of changes in 2.10](http://wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Release:2.10_changelog)
specifically to assist technical writers in updating the user manual.
+* **Translating the content.** At some point we'd like to "freeze" the documentation so that translators
could start updating localized versions of the user manual. Since GIMP is [hosted at
GNOME](https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp-help-2/), you would have to contact your local [GNOME
translation](https://wiki.gnome.org/TranslationProject) team to get involved.
+* **Resurrecting PDF builds.** Years ago we chose DocBook/XML as a way to build both web (HTML) and
printable (PDF) copies of the user manual form a single source. Unfortunately, there appear to be some issues
with building PDF files presently. Someone would have to investigate, what's causing this, and act
accordingly.
+* **Adding Search to the Online Docs.** We've heard a number of requests to add basic search to the online
docs. If you have an idea how to do that, please contact us.
+
+## How To Contribute
+
+Technical documentation on hacking on the user manual is
[available](https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp-help-2/tree/HACKING) in the respective Git repository.
+
+The primary communication environment for all things documentation in the project is the [gimp-docs
](https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-docs-list) mailing list. We encourage you to talk to fellow
team members publicly about which part of the documentation you are hacking on. This is because efficient
collaboratove effort requires full transparence.
+
+If you have technical questions about features in GIMP 2.10, you can use either gimp-docs@ mailing list or
join the [IRC channel](http://www.gimp.org/irc.html), ask your question, and stick around for the answer.
+
+We do not yet have an estimated time of arrival for GIMP 2.10, but there's only so much time we can spend on
tieing loose ends before we can move to the next development cycle.
+
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