Documentation Team Report - 2010 Q1

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

In the first quarter of 2010, the documentation team
completed four Mallard documents for the GNOME 2.30
desktop. They began planning on other help documents,
and helped plan and write help for applications not
in the official GNOME release.

Shaun hosted the Desktop Help Summit, a small gathering
of key documentation people from GNOME, KDE, XFCE, Fedora,
and Ubuntu. The Summit helped us understand what problems
distributors are having, and how we provide documentation
that better reflects what our users actually use.

At the Summit, Shaun and Richard Johnson (KDE) created a
proposal for a common place to install documentation and
a standard way to reference it. This will help third-party
developers integrate with the desktop, and it will help
distributors create and manage common documentation.

After the Summit, Shaun, Phil, and Milo had a planning
session for the new Mallard-based help for 3.0. They
focused on Internet connectivity and file management.

Phil has been talking with the Ubuntu team about using
Mallard, and how GNOME's use of Mallard affects Ubuntu.
The Ubuntu documentation team seems largely positive.
There are some concerns which are being discussed and
handled by the community.

Thanks,
Shaun