On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Hannes Magnusson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all > > It looks like [DOC] has failed miserably, it is of no use if only few > people use it for few commits. > Adding to the fact there is almost no activity in the documentations > we really need to find a better way to organize things. > Currently we have [DOC], (closed) bug reports, NEWS and wiki all > overlapping with each other.. not very attractive for newcomers. > > Does anyone have any idea how we can organize things better and get > more people to document? > > -Hannes > Well, Not sure how things were around here as I'm kinda new with docs but I might have something. I don't how it works internally neither how it works for new documentation. But I've seen how Ubuntu Launchpad eases the work for translators. Have you seen it? An online interface is much more attractive than this CVS thing. Many of us - 'documentors' - (if not all) are programmers and used to use CVS and other versioning system. But this takes some extra time that IMHO it shouldn't. If you want to "spread the word" and get lots of people to help in docs, I believe this kind of thing that Launchpad uses is a go. I'm very well aware that this takes time and not every contributor may actually help with good docs, but it could be moderated. The quality of the actual docs is awesome, it's one of the best docs I've ever seen. I don't want to miss that, so I'm all eyes and ears for this thread. Regards, -- Thiago Henrique Pojda
