I've been watching the debates in here, and I'm wondering if we're starting to lose our drive to get things going. (Mainly because of the *lack* of debates.)
Word choice I'll comment on in the appropriate thread. I'd like to get whatever feedback I can on the state of our affairs here since we started this big push about two months ago. Personally, because I've been offline 99% of the last month, I'm feeling I've failed to cultivate the kind of d'o'd that we really need. I've suggested to John Keiser that his Gecko Document Map would be an ideal start for planning a real documentation effort around, if we had a list of names attached to each subject. No word back on that yet. John, if you can set it up for us to submit names for that map, we could kick off a docweek in very short order... (as in "screw the tools, let's go with what we've got". A 70% solution.) I've wondered about building a form for Keyser Sosez for editing docs, re the roadmap link. No word yet on that (I don't think Keyser is aware of that idea). We've got two different ZOPE databases which we're developing experimental stuff on; is there a way we can consolidate that into one? It's going to be fairly important to mozilla.org imho to present a solid platform for developing docs on. Also, I should probably write up a spec for creating new documentation (as opposed to just files) from scratch. I see two separate sections on that: http://moz.zope.org/contribute/writing/tips and http://moz.zope.org/contribute/tools/zope . I'm thinking we should probably combine those two with a section on the API documentation templates, and also some general advice on writing docs (the tips page is very specific). We're obviously not going to have a DocWeek before 1.1, the way things are looking. Again, I largely see that as my fault. (I don't even have my own machine running right now.) I haven't been able to generate a decent focus on doc efforts for us volunteers, much less for the mozilla.org community, because I haven't been pushing it lately. I'm still very concerned and I desperately want this effort to not flop like so many documentation pushes for mozilla.org have before. We must not fail, this time. The only way we can fail at this point is to stop trying, to stop brainstorming. As I said, I'm willing to throw away the idea of developing tools if we can get policies -- and more importantly, target experts in the respective fields -- identified first. "WeirdAl"
