Hi, Matthias Clasen wrote: > I did a review of the admin guide a while ago, with similar results. > Some of these are minor details, but many of the major UI revisions > date back 2,3,4,5 releases. That leads me to some provokative > questions: > > - If the docs team doesn't have the man power to follow major UI > changes, why bother with a UI freeze at all ?
Because the day the docs team does have man power, if we don't have one, it'll be a mess. > - Are we just waiting for some corporate sponsors to pick up the docs > where Sun left them many years ago ? That would be one option, of course - but it's good that you've identified the issue. The alternative is to recruit some more volunteer docs people. > - Should we just ditch the docs and declare the UI self-explanatory ? Definitely not. > - Is there anything that can be done, short of transmutating hackers > into technical writers at next guadec with the help of poisoned beer ? How about a technical writing workshop, led by Don Scorgie and other members of the GNOME docs team? Plus, a prioritisation of documents for pre-release updates. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [email protected] _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
