On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 11:01 +0100, Javier Fern�ndez-Sanguino Pe�a wrote: > On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 08:23:14PM -0600, John Hornbeck wrote: > > Hello, I am John Hornbeck. I work on the Ubuntu Documentation core > > team and would like to help out with Debian docs. I feel that if we are > > going to be using alot of Debian items in Ubuntu that we need to fully > > extend the help back to Debian. I am free to help with what ever docs > > That's great, I'm glad to hear it. > > > are in need of help and happy to help anyone who would like me to help > > them. Please just let me know where I could be used and I will get > > started. I am familiar with DocBook and learning ReST. Hope that I can > > help out, and help bring alot of the Ubuntu docs back to Debian. > > Well, you could probably "be used" in a lot of documents which are in need > of help. You can just browse http://www.debian.org/doc/ or the CVS > repository (cvs.debian.org, debian-doc CVSROOT) to get a feeling of which > documents are in need of help. Developer's manuals probably don't need to > much help, but user oriented documentation does. Specially, afaik, > administration oriented manuals. > > Most documentation in Debian is currently, however, written in > debiandoc-sgml (shouldn't be an issue to you, but just to let you know). > > As an aside, one thing I've always wondered is which documents are actually > being used. That's something we have not investigated and it would be great > if someone could dig into the web log statistics (of both the main www site > and mirrors) and could tell us: people are mainly using the following > documents X, Y and Z. Documents are also distributed as Debian packages, so > the popularity-contest data might be useful as well. > > Finally, the "Debian Documentation Policy" document (that should replace > http://www.debian.org/doc/docpolicy) is currently stalled. A lot of > help is needed to finish it and provide it to developers and documentation > writers as a guideline of how documentation should be provided within > Debian. Actually, there are a number of TODOs related to the project and > available at http://www.debian.org/doc/ddp which nobody is currently > working on (again, afaik). > > Hopefully that will get you (and others willing to contribute which are > currently lurking in the list) started :-) > > Regards > > Javier Thanks I will start looking into those. Do I just send patches to the list? Let me know,
-- John Hornbeck http://hornbeck.freeshell.org/blogger
