Re: Documentation for next cycle

[Brent Smith <gnome nextreality net>]

Joachim Noreiko wrote:
> --- Brent Smith <gnome nextreality net> wrote:
>
> > Two things I would like to see in the documentation
> > for next cycle:
> >
> > * New file permissions functionality in Nautilus
> > (Christian blogged
> > about this here:
> > http://blogs.gnome.org/view/cneumair/2006/03/06/0)
>
> Looks great.
> But I'm sure just the other week I saw someone else
> post about file permissions to the Nautilus list. I'd
> want to check what's going on and which of several
> possible changes is the definite one before we do the
> corresponding docs work.
>
> Are developers supposed to let us know once major UI
> changes have been committed?

There is no process that I am aware of regarding major UI changes,
except during UI Freeze.  I would welcome any discussion regarding this.
The trick is to integrate this with the release process so that there is
not that much extra time/resources spent by the developer, otherwise
nobody is going to do it.

Right now most projects have detailed ChangeLogs and the NEWS file is
little more than a summary of those changes.  Maybe a team to review
NEWS files and summarize important changes to the documentation team
every point release.

Thanks,

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Brent Smith <gnome nextreality net>
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