Re: GDP Editors

[Alexander Kirillov <kirillov math sunysb edu>]

The idea is good - the problem is finding these people. Any
volunteers?  I could do some of the work, but not on style and grammar
(I wish someone could help *me* with that!)

Sasha  

On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 05:40:41PM -0600, Dan Mueth wrote:
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> On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
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> > Could there be some sort of a formal "editors" group or something?  I think
> > that editing is very important to documentation, but nobody seems to take
> > the time to set up anything formal for the editors.  Thanks,
> 
> I think this is a great idea.  The GDP could use one or more "editors".
> They should do the typical editting functions (spelling, grammar, correct
> use of acronyms and abreviations, etc.) and should also be able to edit
> more GNOME-specific issues such as the DocBook markup, licensing and
> copywrite issues, screenshot size and format, etc.  They will act to unify
> the style of the documentation (eg. use of "you" as opposed to "one").
> 
> I think it is unreasonable to expect the average documentation author to
> be on top of all of these issues.