Re: 2.4 docs status

[Aaron Weber <aaron ximian com>]

John: 
  Might want to add me to the Evolution docs writer and/or maintainer list-- the Sun folk are indeed writing and maintaining, but then again, so am I...

(also, Eugene, Brenda, Pat-- pls send in your changes if possible, as we're beginning to plan for 1.6 and I'd love to have those merged back to the trunk before we go gallivanting off in new directions).

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On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 17:46, John Fleck wrote:
> Folks -
>
> I have updated the doctable so it is now in sync with GNOME 2.4 release
> modules list. There have been a number of people recently who have come
> 'round volunteering, and there is a good list of things on the doctable
> that are open and need doing. Some have been around a while, and some
> are new for the 2.4 release.
>
> Doctable is here:
>
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gdp/doctable--.html
>
> The work falls into two areas - writing docs themselves and what we've
> loosely called "maintainership".
>
> The distinction, in short, is that writers write docs and maintainers
> deal with all the other crap that needs to be taken care of - docs
> builds and the like.
>
> For one-app packages like Zenity, the maintainer and the writer are
> likely to be the same person. For big multi-app packages like
> gnome-utils or the applets, maintainership means riding herd over all
> the docs in the package, acting as a docs go-between with the package
> maintainer, keeping track of docs build and omf issues, hunting for new
> docs writers when old ones slip away, watching for changes from one
> major release to the next.
>
> Here are the packages that need fresh docs love:
>
> acme - needs writer/maintainer
>
> gconf-editor - needs writer/maintainer
>
> in gnome-applets:
> 	modemlights - needs writer
> 	multi-load - needs writer
> 	battstat - needs writer
> 	
> gnome-games is a bit of a tangle, and really needs a maintainer to
> 	figure out what has docs and what needs 'em.
>
> gnome-media needs a maintainer. Irene is doing some of the docs, but
> 	someone needs to poke around and see what else is needed.
>
> gnomemeeting - I am told there is someone working on docs. I've been
> 	unsuccessful in contacting him, and I suspect they may need
> 	some help.
>
> gucharmap - needs maintainer/writer
>
> totem - needs maintainer/writer
>
> zenity - Glynn Foster, the developer, has done some docs, but would be
> 	a happy guy if someone would take over responsibility for 
> 	maintenance.
>
> Cheers,
> John