Re: G2 Lessons Learned

[Jon Allen <jon jonallen org>]

I didn't start using GNOME until about 1.4 so I have no idea how effective
the Doctable was back then.  Perhaps the current Doctable infrastructure is
sufficient but needs to be used?  I'm wondering if we need to go out and
re-invent the wheel if we have a system already in place.  If the Doctable
in its
current form is actually a useful tool when used consistently, I vote to
stick with
it because:

1. We don't have to install/customize/learn a new doc tracking system.  [1]
2. We don't have to change our methods dramatically to support the new
tool.

Also, adding a 'newbie tasks' section to the doctable might help get new
documenters going in the right direction.

Jon

[1] This will avoid the ever-present GNOME sysadmin issue, and besides,
I won't have to update the webpages till the wee hours of the morning to
support
a new tool ;)

On 01 Jul 2002, John Fleck wrote:
>
> Doctable
> 
>   We need to solve this problem. We floundered for a long time and
>   lost energy and momentum because there were people wanting to do
>   something but no clear way to figure out what needed to be done
>   short of some sort of IRC ESP thing. In the past, the period of
>   greatest momentum for the GDP was in the development of GNOME 1.2,
>   when there was a ton of documentation to be written and you could
>   just log onto the Doctable and easily find a task. The temporary
>   Doctable helped noticeably, but really sucks.[2]
> 

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