<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Op 11-06-16 om 02:16 schreef Ian Nicholson: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:575B5868.7050906@binaryash.net" type="cite">My 2 cents as an infrequent contributer: I'd probably do much more if there was someone who was empowered to ask for a commitment to write/update/whatever a portion of the documentation, and then send an email once in a while checking to see if I was still working on it; basically a PM. My understanding is that this is more or less what lyz was doing but is no longer able to do. Don't know if it's relevant, and sorry if it was already brought up, I didn't see it in the meeting logs. </blockquote> I totally understand what Ian is saying here. It fits in with what I think is missing: a coordinator (at least for the Ubuntu Desktop documentation). In the meeting I referred to The Ubuntu Manual Project [1] where we managed to publish the Xenial version thanks to the efforts of a handful of enthousiastic people. We also have a handful of enthousiastic people in the docs team, but what I miss is coordination. New contributors should be taken by the hand to help them figure out how they can best contribute. At UMP [1] newcomers can read the clear instructions first, ask questions on the mailing list and finally the team coordinators allocate tasks using a shared spreadsheet. Knowing from experience that the task of a coordinator is time consuming, I do not know if we can find such a person in the docs team. In order to spread the tasks, I also suggested to have 3 separate divisions in the docs team: Ubuntu Desktop (tasks: writing new content, reviewing existing content, translations) Ubuntu Server Guide (tasks: writing new content, reviewing existing content, translations) Ubuntu Wiki These are just some of my thoughts. Cheers, Hannie [1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ubuntu-manual.org/">http://ubuntu-manual.org/</a> </body> </html>