On 1/3/14 3:52 PM, Tim Van Steenburgh wrote: > On Friday, January 3, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Dave Brondsema wrote: >> On 1/3/14 1:08 PM, Tim Van Steenburgh wrote: >>> We've published a Getting Started guide for new Allura contributors at >>> http://allura.sourceforge.net/docs/contributing.html. To accompany the >>> guide, we've created a new 'bitesize' ticket label to identify open tickets >>> that may be suitable for new contributors. Bitesize tickets can be found at >>> https://sourceforge.net/p/allura/tickets/search/?q=labels%3Abitesize (link >>> is also included in the docs). >>> >>> If you're interested in contributing to Allura, don't be intimidated - jump >>> in and we'll help you! >> >> Yay :) We've been sorely missing that type of guide. >> >> I've had one person suggest to me that docs about "Using Allura" would be >> helpful. End-user docs about setting up a project, using the tools, etc. We >> don't have any of that in our docs. The SourceForge support docs at >> https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/Docs%20Home/ do cover those >> topics, but also cover other SourceForge-specific things. >> >> What does everyone thing about adding a "Using Allura" section to our docs, >> initially containing specific targeted links to SourceForge pages, with >> appropriate notes/disclaimer that there are some SourceForge-specific items >> within those pages? >> > I agree that we should have docs on "Using Allura." Starting with links to SF > docs is a perfectly acceptable beginning imho - certainly better than > nothing. If we (or anyone) has the bandwidth to eventually add screencasts > and such, even better. > > Here's an existing ticket that lists some stuff that would be needed in such > documentation: https://sourceforge.net/p/allura/tickets/5943/ > > Other doc-related tickets here: > https://sourceforge.net/p/allura/tickets/search/?q=labels%3Adocs+%26%26+status%3Aopen
Got that started at http://allura.sourceforge.net/docs/using.html Wayne, screencasts would be great, but one downside is that when they get out of date there's no easy way to update them (whereas text and screenshots can be updated in-place). -- Dave Brondsema : [email protected] http://www.brondsema.net : personal http://www.splike.com : programming <><
