Call for help to the docs team

[David Planella]

Al 22/03/12 17:58, En/na Jeremy Bicha ha escrit:
> On 22 March 2012 10:04, David Planella <david.planella at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've been speaking to some of the members of the docs team about this
>> subject, and after some discussion I thought I'd write to the list to
>> keep everyone in the loop and ask for your help.
>>
>> Unity documentation not being ready and the recent freeze exception
>> affect directly a project in which the Simplified Chinese translation
>> community and the Canonical Professional Engineering Services (PES) team
>> are currently working on [1].
>>
>> In short, Canonical is working with both the Chinese community and paid
>> translators to complete the Ubuntu docs package translation, which is
>> going to be used in the main 12.04 release and for a critical PES
>> project. The original plan was to start the translation work tomorrow
>> following the freeze, which will not happen now, so we're trying to do
>> the best to adapt to the new situation.
>>
>> One area in which the help from the docs team would be extremely useful
>> is in pointing out, even if roughly, to:
>>
>> - Which documentation pages are most likely to remain unchanged (e.g.
>> the GNOME documentation pages)
>> - Which documentation pages are most likely to be modified
>> - Which documentation pages are going to be newly written (e.g.
>> unity-*.page, etc.)
>>
>> I am aware of the work Jeremy Bicha and others have started on the
>> documentation TODO list [2], but if we could get a somewhat more
>> concrete overview in the form pointed above, it would be really useful
>> for us, so that we can better schedule the work for this project.
> 
> David & Kyle, thanks for the post. You're right; we need to do a
> better job of keeping track of what's final for 12.04 and what still
> needs work. Matthew has a nice script he created for 11.04, but we've
> let it slide since. There will be a row in each page similar to
> 
> <revision version="12.04" date="2012-03-22" status="final"/>
> 
> with the status being "outdated" (needs fixing), "review" (needs to be
> checked), or "final". You can then run ./check_status.sh in
> ubuntu-help/C/ to get a printout of what's done and what isn't. I
> started updating that field today but it won't get finished until late
> tonight as I'm still at work now. When it's done, I'll post again to
> the docs and translator lists so that everyone can benefit.
> 
> Jeremy

Good work Jeremy, I've just checked the output with the pages you just
updated the status for.

Once all are updated, that's exactly what we need, thanks!

Cheers,
David.

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David Planella
Ubuntu Translations Coordinator
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