Re: GNOME Documentation Updates

[marlen <marlen waaijer verizon net>]

Hi Paul,
Have you looked at the following pages?
http://live.gnome.org/DocumentationProject/Join
http://live.gnome.org/DocumentationProject/Contributing

Marlen

Paul Cutler wrote:

> Hi, I wanted to follow up on Shaun's email below regarding GNOME docs,
> and where to get started and how to help, separate from the freeze and
> translation discussion.
>
> I am very interested in helping out with GNOME Docs, and helped the
> Tomboy team with some documentation updates for this past GNOME 2.22
> release.
>
> I've spent some time on LGO and in Bugzilla, but it's difficult to
> understand where to jump in and help.
>
> Starting at http://live.gnome.org/DocumentationProject:
>
> *Contributing & Joining:  Takes you to a page filled with links to
> other wikis (http://live.gnome.org/InterWiki)
>
> * Tasks:  Takes you to the same link.
>
> 95% of those links aren't GNOME related.  Where should a new
> contributor really start?
>
> The wiki page also warns you that that the GDP's home page on
> developer.gnome.org (http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gdp/) - and
> it is, with the linked Tasks discussing GNOME 2.0.
>
> * List of wiki pages concerning the GPD leads you to a blank page.
>
> * Roadmap link (http://live.gnome.org/DocumentationProject/RoadMap)
> discusses GNOME 2.18
>
> I'm not trying to be critical - I want to help out, but I'm not sure
> where to start, and I'm wondering if other new people who want to
> contribute have seen the same things.  Other than knowing a project
> needs help via PGO or an email to this list like the Empathy email the
> other day, it's a bit confusing on where to start.
>
> I'd love to help out, but I'm looking for some help with the above or
> some mentoring.
>
> Paul Cutler
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>
> Date: Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 4:12 PM
> Subject: Re: Improving things for translators
> To: Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>
> Cc: gnome-i18n gnome org, gnome-doc-list gnome org, release-team gnome org
>
> <snip>
>
> Indeed.  Documentation writing doesn't really heat up
> until after the feature freeze, which is roughly half
> way through our release cycle.  That leaves the team
> three months to update all the documentation.  Factor
> in these facts:
>
> 1) Our documentation is out of date, sometimes by as
> much as a few years.  We're still trying to clear the
> backlog, so to speak, which makes for an even heavier
> workload.  If we ever caught up, we'd be in a better
> position to make future updates in a timely manner.
>
> 2) The desktop release contains 86 documents.  Some
> of them are smallish, but some of them are huge.  We
> add new modules with every release.
>
> 3) We have almost no active writers at the moment.
> Virtually all updates are those that Ubuntu sends
> upstream.  I'm way too busy being a hacker to be
> a writer.
>
>
> --
> Shaun
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