Re: Contribution of Sun documentation team to the GDP.

[Brian Casey <Brian Casey Sun COM>]

> [snip]

> There are, by the way, a few problems with the 2.6.0 User Guide that
> should be addressed for 2.6.1.  It appears some JDS stuff slipped into
> the community docs.  Can Brian or another of the Sun team address this
> for 2.6.1, or should we try to find somebody else for that?
> 

> [snip]

>>Oh dear. Not too surprising that JDS topics have slipped through
>>considering we have pushed to the limit the capabilities of marked
>>sections. This was exactly the sort of thing that I have been worrying
>>about. Also, we were having real difficulties getting hold of latest
>>community builds as opposed to latest builds flavored with JDS. I think
>>what has happened here is that Brian genuinely thought he was documenting
>>the latest GNOME community build, but was inadvertently capturing JDS
>>functionality as well. Therefore, I think the best thing that we can do to
>>be sure is to find someone willing to take on working on the GNOME 2.8
>>Desktop User Guide right away, and Brian can act as peer reviewer and
>>general advisor. This should enable Brian and the new author of the UG to
>>triangulate the information and thereby eliminate any JDS flavorings. 

>>Brian
>>- would you have time to support a new contributor to the community UG, as
>>a peer reviewer? 

I certainly will offer as much support as I can. The main issue I
foresee is having a copy of the latest clean Community build (withour
JDS flavor) on my machine to test and verify while performing a peer
review.

Rgds,

Brian