On 11/26/06, Philip Rodrigues <philip.rodrigues at lincoln.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > > Hi Jonathan, > > > I would like to also through my hat in the ring for helping out w/ KDE > > docs. I already do a lot of work for Kubuntu documentation and would > like > > to tackle Keep as there have been some bugs reported on launchpad.netand > > updated at bugs.kde.org on missing manuals. > > > > What do I need to do to get started on that? > > Sorry I didn't get back to you earlier about this. I've just taken a look > at > Keep and it seems like it doesn't yet have any documentation, so you > should > get in touch with the developer and tell him that you're interested in > working on creating docs for it - he might already have an outline for > docs, > or some ideas that might be useful. > > How you proceed after that is up to how you prefer to work :-). I'd > suggest > making an outline first, so you have an idea of what you want to include > in > each section. Feel free to send the outline to the list if you'd like some > comments on it. Then it's up to you what order you prefer to write it in - > I'd suggest writing the "Getting Started" or "Basic Usage" section first, > and > then moving onto other sections. > > You can do all this working in plain text, and then send the plain text to > the > list, where we'll find someone to add the necessary docbook markup, so you > don't need to worry about it. We can also provide editing and comments, so > if > you send each section/chapter as you write it, that will hopefully work > out > well both for us and you. > > I guess you've already seen the resources listed in other mails, but as a > reminder, we're in #kde-docs on irc.freenode.net, and we have a > documentation > primer at http://l10n.kde.org/docs/doc-primer/index.html . > > If you have any other questions, please don't hesitate to ask. And welcome > to > the docs team! :-) > > Regards, > Philip > > Once you have a document done then what do you do with it? Submit it to the list? For example another document that I'm 90% done with is for Adept Manager (Kubuntu's default package manager). Do I tar the entire directory and atttach it to the list or is there some other way of submitting potential documents. Do other people then verify it meets the styles/standards for the other documents?
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