Re: Coordination for developer documentations

[Michael Ikey Doherty <michael i doherty intel com>]

On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 13:47 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Jasper St. Pierre
> <jstpierre mecheye net> wrote:
> > The issue seems to be that people show up, write a bunch of tutorials, docs,
> > build a website, and then never finish it. They just leave and we're left
> > with a half-finished developer docs site.
>
> This is very true and I have pointed this out from time to time.
>
> > Usually, the tutorials that these guys write end up not compiling or running
> > in newer versions of the GNOME development stack. So, we need to be testing
> > them better.
>
> We've spun up a QA Team, this could be one of those things to test as
> part of the release.  Some of it can be automated, some of those could
> be hand tested, it all depends.  The QA team will be an excellent
> place for new contributors to start since hte barrier of entry is
> quite low.
Just a quick interruption from myself, I'm happy to do a bit of spare
time testing of the gnome continuous images, have several machines here
I can test on. All I need is an agreed report format (spreadsheet?) and
some links to get started tomorrow.

- Ikey
> The release team could then decide the quality of the release based on
> whether everything is working including tutorials as part of it's
> purview of readying a release.
>
> > Having such tutorials somewhere in some git repo so they can be easily
> > tested would be a huge help.
>
> Could be part of gnome-continuous.  I think Colin talked about it as
> well and that it could be easily done.
>
> > Matthias's "application1-10" he did for the last GUADEC were excellent, but
> > they're not quite "beginner" enough.
>
> The more the merrier.
>
> > While I'd love to step up and do this, I'm remarkably busy as a person, and
> > honestly, most of my free time is actually playing around with the web
> > technology stack, not ours. It's a lot more exciting, and has a lot more
> > fast-developing and approachable features.
>
> Just had to throw that out there, didn't you? :D  You should look at
> https://crosswalk-project.org/.
>
> sri
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