[Proposal] Owner/Maintainer list (was: [proposal] Split User Guide)

[Alexander Poslavsky]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 13:18:58 +0200, Sean Wheller <sean at inwords.co.za> wrote:
> On Thursday 06 January 2005 01:01, Alexander Poslavsky wrote:
> > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 23:57:00 +0200, Sean Wheller <sean at inwords.co.za>
> > wrote:
> > > 6. We should then realign ourselves so that we each know who is going to
> > > take what. I envision a list of the docs and their outlines with peoples
> > > names next to those sections people are or will do. Any sections without
> > > an owner can then be seen as places for new contributors, or current
> > > contributors who want to take on more or another section, to take
> > > ownership.
> >
> > This is a very good idea.
> 
> Problem:
> -------------
> There is a need to maintain a list of who is doing what. So I make the
> following proposal to maintain a document that details who is working on
> what.
> 
> The problem with this is that it is labor intensive. Enrico already has his
> hands full. We need to automate the procedure and distribute the workload
> through the team with each person taking care of maintaining their own work
> list.
> 
> Solution:
> ---------------
> I will add a folder to SVN called housekeeping.
> 
> In this folder will be an XSL and a Makefile
> 
> The XSL will go through the document framework and retrieve information about
> authors and revisions and output this to an HTML file.
> 
> Using a combination of cron and 'make' the file will be updated every X hours
> and uploaded to a constant location on the web site.
> 
> In order for this to work people will have to add information to the specific
> chapters or sections they are working on. This information shall be removed
> using python or perl before dist. Here is a sample of what will be added:
> 
> <sect1>
>         <title>Installing Packages</title>
>         <authorblurb>Sean Wheller</authorblurb>
>         <para>text</para>
>     </sect1>
> 
> The XSL will create an HTML document with tables for each document. Cols as
> follows:
> 
> Filename                                        Item                            Author
> chap-installremove.xml          Installing Packages             Sean Wheller
> 
> Way forward:
> --------------
> 
> Authors should start adding authorblurb to the items they want to do.
> 
> Any other ideas welcome.
> 

good idea, can this also be used to make the author list of the doc in the end?