One advantage to putting todos into the actual documents themselves is that 
they provide content to an other wise blank section.  I think seeing a section 
that says "Todo: Getting Started section needs expanding" or similar looks 
better to me than just a void.  Perhaps it's like those pages that say "This 
page intentionally left blank", although without the irony.

So I still think in general that doc tasks should go in JIRA for things "going 
forward", but I think that until we fill out all sections of the docs as they 
stand now, it could be nice to have todos.

I don't feel tremendously strongly about this, but I thought it could be 
helpful both from a user's perspective, and also to lower the bar for 
contributors.


Thanks,
Mike Pumphrey
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org


Justin Deoliveira wrote:
> While I personally do want to see more doc tasks ending up in jira I 
> thin a lot of the stuff that would end up in a todo list would be 
> smaller scale... and since one usually comes up with todo items while 
> they are editing a document nice and handy, rather then have to go out 
> to jira, set up a new issue, etc...
> 
> My 2c.
> 
> -Justin
> 
> Gabriel Roldan wrote:
>> wonder if the todo list itself couldn't be a Jira with subtasks?
>>
>> Mike Pumphrey wrote:
>>> Hi there.  Now that some work is starting to happen on the GeoServer 
>>> 2.0 documentation, I propose to add a todolist document to our 
>>> GeoServer manuals.  This will be a listing of all of the pages or 
>>> sections whose content isn't completed.  So, adding the following 
>>> content to, say, the Getting Started section:
>>>
>>>    .. todo:: Entire Getting Started section
>>>
>>> will generate content on the todolist page that says:
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Todo: Entire Getting Started section
>>>
>>> (The original entry is located in gettingstarted\index.rst, line 6 
>>> and can be found _here_.)
>>> ---
>>>
>>> The advantage of this is so that anyone can see at a glance what work 
>>> still needs to be done.  This could hopefully make it easier for 
>>> people who wish to contribute by having a handy list of where to 
>>> start.  We can make it as granular as we want.
>>>
>>> If everyone says that this is a good idea, I'll make a JIRA and set 
>>> this up in a jiffy (starting with trunk).  My only question is 
>>> whether we make this todolist page part of the main toctree, or 
>>> whether we hide it.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mike Pumphrey
>>> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
>>>
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