Development monitoring (Re: Recent changes to Ubuntu)

[Nick Loeve]

Mary Gardiner wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 07, 2005, Nick Loeve wrote:
> 
>>If noone else wants to then i can do it... I also think we should not
>>hit them right now, as they are all flat out, and we don't want our
>>cries to be missed or ignored :)
> 
> 
> You do seem to be the only volunteer atm. (If someone else pops up, you
> can work together anyway.)

Yes, would love to have other people involved, seeing as though some
weeks i get more time to pay attention than others.

> 
> Do you have ideas about exactly what you're going to do in this
> position?
> 

Not exactly no.

Off the top of my head:

 - Maybe a weekly round up of what is going on in the dev mailinglist,
   posted to the docteam list?
 - I could maybe post back a summary of any dev changes/additions, in
   regards to how it would impact documentation, so that the developers
   get a chance to comment and make sure my interpretation is correct.
   This may help to raise awareness of how development decisions could
   impact on documentation. This could possibly also be weekly or
   bi-weekly.
 - Possibly reviewing development change logs and summarising them from
   a dev team perspective? I do not currently know the best place to get
   this information though.

I don't really hang out on the #ubuntu-dev IRC channel, so maybe some
one summarising discussions from there could help also. Or i could start
doing it myself :)

I guess if i was to start doing this, my only fear is that i will not
have much time for actual documentation contributions. My time is pretty
limited right now, but i would be happy to do this task, at least for a
while.

Cheers
trickie (Nick Loeve)