[Evolution] Improving Evolution user docs

[Bharath Acharya <abharath novell com>]

Hello,

  I did catch up with Phil Bull and Milo Casagrande at GUADEC 2010 and
we felt we were all on the same page that the user docs for Evolution
needed a real push for GNOME3.

Migrating the exact same 2.31.x user doc to Mallard [1] may not be a
good start. Most of the issues that our users face are documented mostly
on [2], and since the FAQ is built over the past few years based on user
queries on mailing lists and IRC, we felt that is exactly what the user
docs should ideally contain.

So this is what we feel would be ideal to do,
1) Fetch the content from the FAQ and move it to Mallard.
2) Start a new gitorious doc project for Evolution.
3) Get the good things back from the existing 2.31.x documentation.

I think Phil already has a new project done for it, and would slowly
start integrating the good pieces into it.

One other issue that surfaced during our discussion,
Do we have a licensing on the FAQ page?

I talked to Michael and Andre about it. They told me it is fine to go
ahead with it, and since most of the content was uploaded by the users
themselves, the Doc team could re-license it to whatever they feel is
appropriate and use them. Revert back, if anyone feels I missed
anything. I am bad at the legal aspects of it, so if anyone else feels
this is not right, let us know.

If all goes through well, we should have the docs merged soon. And trust
me, the users would love the doc experience with the new format.

[1] http://projectmallard.org/
[2] http://live.gnome.org/Evolution/FAQ

Regards,
Bharath