Announcing GNOME Documentation Status Table (Beta)

[Dan Mueth <d-mueth uchicago edu>]

We would like to announce the beta of the GNOME Documentation 
Status Table: 

          http://www.gnome.org/gdp/doctable

A detailed description of this site is provided below.

We invite GDP members to try out this site and provide feedback.  The 
basic functionality of this site should be reliable and users are 
invited to begin using it immediately.

We would like everyone who is writing application documentation to use 
this site to indicate what thich application(s) they are writing 
documentation for.  We would also like application developers to 
volunteer to be contacts that documentation authors can ask 
technical questions to.  This can be done directly through the site
or by emailing the information to doctable@rheo.uchicago.edu. 

For full functionality, users must log in with password. To request a
login, send an email to doctable@rheo.uchicago.edu including your
email address and desired login name and password.

Please note that in addition to the gnome-doc mailing list, suggestions 
may be included directly in the table in the Comments section for 
the "doctable" entry at the bottom of the "Additional Applications" section.

Dan and David

d-mueth@uchicago.edu
dfallon@ucla.edu

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The initial objectives of the GNOME Documentation Status Table are to track the
status of all GNOME application documentation, to track which authors are
writing documentation for each application, and to provide a discussion forum 
specific to each application.  This web page will serve as a focal point for 
application documentation efforts, providing basic instructions and links 
to help new authors get started, basic guidelines on what (most)
applications' documentation should consist of, and the application
documentation status table.

This table provides the following features:

Anonymous users:
1) can suggest new applications to be added to the table
2) can add anonymous comments for a particular application

Login users:
1) can add new applications to the table
2) can moderate anonymously suggested applications
3) can add comments and TODO items for each application
4) can delete comments and TODO items
5) can edit or remove applications in the table

We are in the process of expanding the scope beyond application documentation 
to include other documentation, such as non-application GNOME documentation 
(the user and developer docs) and possibly translations.