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On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 8:11 AM, Dave Brondsema <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > <>< > -- *Daniel Hinojosa* *Community Manager, SourceForge / Slashdot Media* p: 415.890.3608 e: [email protected] Twitter: @hinojosad Skype: hinojosad
