Re: Getting Up to Speed

[Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>]

--- John Stowers <john stowers lists gmail com> wrote:
> I am new to this list, and the documentation project
> as a whole and would
> like to contribute. I was wondering where is the
> best place to start.

Hi.
There's a list of who's currently working on what on
the wiki here:
http://live.gnome.org/DocumentationProject/Team
There's a lot of things to do, so pick whatever you're
most interested in :)

> I see that the best way is
> to contribute patches
> (in Docbook for Yelp??), but then while reading the
> mailing list I see that
> a lot of movement is going on in the wiki instead?
> Is this the new preferred
> method of contributing? particularly for user guide
> type documents?

The wiki is useful for several reasons: we can work
collaboratively on documents, which can speed up
writing, and people who don't know DocBook can work on
documents.

However, someone still has to turn wiki markup into
DocBook. 
It's also not very convenient for working on a massive
document such as the user guide that has to be spanned
across many pages (then again, neither is DocBook!)


	
	
		
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