On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 10:33 -0600, Tom Martin wrote: > Hello All, > My name is Thomas. I would like to become involved in helping the > gnome-docs team, but I am unsure of where to start or what projects I > can start sinking my teeth into. I have several years of gnome and > software development experience. If any project need my help or > documentation is need for certain areas I would be glad to assist. > Thanks and have a great day
Hi Tom, Thanks for being a part of our team. A good first task would be reviewing a small document to see if it's still current for the upcoming 2.26 release. I recommend reviewing the Character Map Manual. You can check out gucharmap from SVN with the following command: svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gucharmap/trunk gucharmap Review the manual against the latest development version of gucharmap. You can either build gucharmap directly from the SVN checkout, or you can use a recent virtual machine image of Gnome 2.25. You're looking for inconsistencies between the manual and the application. Does the manual refer to things that are no longer in the application? Does the application have features that are not documented? If you feel adventurous, think about what users might be trying to do with gucharmap, and ask yourself if the manual provide guidance for those tasks. You can send your review to the list. If you like, you can edit the DocBook to reflect your review and send a patch. In the articleinfo element, add this: <releaseinfo revision="2.26" status="<status>"/> Replace <status> with an actual status indicator. Please read the status tracking document for more information: http://live.gnome.org/DocumentationProject/StatusTracking You can, of course, do the same thing with another document if there's another application you feel more comfortable working with. But I recommend starting with a small manual. Note that, if a document already has status information for 2.26, doing such a review is probably duplicate effort. Please let us know if there's anything we can help you with. Thanks, Shaun _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
