Documentation Status Tracking

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

As many of you know, I've been working on a system called Pulse
to help us track our documentation.  It's now at a stage where
it can offer genuinely useful information that can significantly
help use prioritize our efforts.

http://www.gnome.org/~shaunm/pulse/web/

We can easily see what documents exist, but what we really need
to know is what the status of each document is.  In order to do
this, I've come up with a system of recording status information
directly in the DocBook.

I've written a proposal for how I think we should handle this:

http://live.gnome.org/DocumentationProject/StatusTracking

I would appreciate it if you could look this over and offer
suggestions.  A system that doesn't work for our community
won't solve our problems, so it's important that I know how
well you all think this will work for your workflow.

Note that I believe the proposed system can also help our
intrepid translators.  I don't believe we are ready yet to
impose hard freezes on documentation, but this system does
impose freezes on any documents marked as "final".  While
not a complete solution, this can at least help translators
prioritize which documents they work on.

--
Shaun