Team processes for Karmic (was Re: Proposal: Create product for each derivative's documentation)

[Dougie Richardson]

Hi Dinda.

Sounds like a good idea.

2009/4/8 Belinda Lopez <belinda.lopez at canonical.com>:
>
>
> Phil Bull wrote:
>
> Hi Matt,
>
> On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 14:21 +0100, Matthew East wrote:
>
>
> However, we should remember that writing documentation for Ubuntu,
> Xubuntu, Kubuntu and Edubuntu will inevitably require a separate work
> product. It will also require people with different experiences to
> contribute to each, not least because you definitely have to have used
> the flavour that you are documenting in order to contribute. I'm a
> huge proponent of doing everything possible to keep us coherent as a
> team, but we do need to recognise that people are likely to end up
> contributing to the area of the documentation that they are interested
> in and familiar with.
>
>
> Of course, but it's not necessarily about code sharing. We can only ever
> share a limited amount of code. I'm talking about working together in
> terms of style, planning and training. The documentation for each
> flavour is quite different in style and structure, and I don't see why
> it should be; I have no idea about the future plans of the other
> flavours; I don't feel that we have any sort of unified "process" for
> training newcomers.
>
> In short, I don't think that we are sharing ideas and expertise between
> the different groups, or forming a consensus on the best way of doing
> things for our users. In fact, the only thing we regularly discuss as a
> team is infrastructure!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil
>
>
>
> Hear, hear, Phil!  I second your call for a more unified approach,
> especially in the getting newcomers to be contributors.
> The Beginners Team and Classroom teams are trying to develop ways to train
> new contributors as well.  There is certainly overlap not just here but in
> other Ubuntu Teams as well.
>
> I've been following the Flossmanuals.net new processes and they can go from
> zero to documentation, even books in a week and in some cases less.  It's an
> interesting wiki-based system that plays well with docbook and even printing
> PDFs through lulu.com.  Not saying we should go that route but tossing it
> out as another possible method.  Flossmanuals itself hosts the documentation
> sprints and has some funding to bring everyone into one room as well as
> remote contributors - the point is that it happens fast and the quality
> increases with each new book/manual they develop.
>
> Can we set up an IRC meeting?  or I'm even happy to host a phone conference
> if it will help expedite moving things forward and getting inputs from all
> the teams.   It's also been proposed/discussed at prior UDSes but still
> nothing concrete.
>
> cheers,
>
> Belinda
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Dougie Richardson
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