Ubuntu Drupal

Ekaterina G. Potapova egeomar at mail.ru
Wed Mar 18 07:29:31 UTC 2009


I think it's a good idea to discuss a whole documentation producing
process. As a newbie in the team  I would like to have more precise
understanding of the process and of the team's work.
Regards,
Katya Potapova
Jim Campbell wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> 2009/3/17 Dougie Richardson <dougierichardson at ubuntu.com>:
>> Fair enough forget I mentioned it.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dougie Richardson
>> http://www.lynxworks.eu/
>> dougierichardson at ubuntu.com
> 
> I think that this discussion has highlighted a couple of different
> helpful items, though.  For example, up until this point I didn't know
> that we didn't publish the docs in PDF format because of how some
> internal links wouldn't work across PDF files.  I knew that it was
> possible to do so, and I knew that we didn't, but I didn't know why.
> 
> Also, in regards to the docs-to-website building process, it appears
> as though Matthew is really the only one who has an intimate knowledge
> of how it works.  It seems that a few more doc team members should at
> least have a decent grasp of such processes, even if we won't be
> performing the updates ourselves.
> 
> We seem to have a decent group of regular documentors now.  Perhaps we
> could collaborate just a bit more during the Karmic cycle to develop a
> more comprehensive approach to the documentation, or perhaps a jaunty
> post-mortem team meeting would be good to identify areas where we'd
> like to see improvement - we could talk about what worked, what didn't
> work, what can be done differently, etc.  Thoughts?
> 
> Jim
> 






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