Documentation / Docbook experts/editors, where art thou?

Dan 'Da Man' heymrdjd at gmail.com
Tue Aug 28 17:27:08 UTC 2012


I can contribute some time to help with editing DocBook as well.

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 6:20 AM, Pasi Lallinaho <pasi at shimmerproject.org>wrote:

> On 08/28/2012 02:17 PM, Rich Dennis wrote:
> > On 08/27/2012 08:59 PM, Pasi Lallinaho wrote:
> >> Hello!
> >>
> >> The documentation rewriting is coming along slowly but rather steadily.
> >> There's a lot to be done, so everybody who is able to help, please
> >> navigate to the documentation wiki [1] and start working.
> >>
> >> A few words before that, though: the sections with *bolded* titles are
> >> "signed off" or as you might say, ready to publish. No need to touch
> >> those. The sections that have been -striked- out will be either left out
> >> or are already grouped under other pages. No need to touch those either.
> >> The rest of the pages are still to be written, to be reviewed and such.
> >> If something isn't up-to-date, if something doesn't exist or if you
> >> think you can say something much shorter and better – feel free to go
> >> ahead and edit!
> >>
> >> Oh, and one more thing. We encourage you to register to the wiki so we
> >> can follow who did what a bit better. Not to say we are watching if you
> >> make mistakes.
> >>
> >>
> >> Also, at this stage, we'd like the ones in the Docbook editors group to
> >> step up now. Boldly, please. You can reply to this mail too, but please
> >> join #xubuntu-devel, say "hi, my name is [nomen] i've signed up as a
> >> docbook editor" (even those who haven't signed up can say that too, we
> >> won't tell anybody!) and try to hang out there as much as possible so we
> >> can get a hold of you, and talk. It's OK if you don't know anything
> >> about Docbook. Just come hang around and we'll see what we can do. But
> >> please take action as soon as possible – the documentation string freeze
> >> is around the corner soon too!
> >>
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Pasi
> >>
> >> [1] http://dagobah.princessleia.com/Xubuntu/12.10
> >>
> > I'd like to contribute. Join #xubuntu-devel - when? What day of the
> > week? What time of the day?
> >
> Any and any. Many of us are monitoring the channel while awake, and most
> of have a shell, so we can read the backlog when we come back.
>
> Cheers,
> Pasi
>
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