Hi, On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Vincent Untz <[email protected]> wrote: > Le mardi 17 février 2009, à 07:46 +0000, Phil Bull a écrit : >> It should be possible to draft in some mentors from the Ubuntu Doc team. >> We have a few who are active at the moment and who might be interested. > > The obvious question is: could the Ubuntu Doc team be active upstream > even if we don't do some program with mentorship? What can we do to > attract those volunteers? What is currently wrong that makes them not > help upstream?
I'm able to help with mentorship subject to work pressures, which vary from period to period. To answer the last question, the Ubuntu Doc team's work tends to focus on documentation that isn't covered by the existing Gnome documentation. We rarely have enough manpower to update the gnome-user-guide or other documents that come from Gnome (although we have incorporated these documents into the structure of our own documentation using strategically placed sellotape). We occasionally make changes to the Gnome documentation, but it's pretty rare. In most cases this is to reflect a difference between vanilla Gnome and Ubuntu Gnome, so the changes are not worth passing upstream anyway. Having said that we run a bzr branch of gnome-user-docs and will certainly encourage patches to come upstream where they are applicable. Some patches have already made their way upstream on this basis. Generally, Shaun has (as usual) put his finger on the main problems with contributing to Gnome docs. From the point of view of Ubuntu contributors who may already be familiar with xml and version control, my feeling is that the primary ones are (1) the difficulty of installing a vanilla Gnome desktop, (2) the complexity involved in plugging Gnome documents into Ubuntu documents (i.e. the absence of Mallard). Number (1) could be solved if there were a way of testing an up to date Gnome desktop through a website, or an easy way of putting one into a virtual window of some kind. I don't have any experience of either technology, but I'm sure someone reading knows how to do this. -- Matthew East http://www.mdke.org gnupg pub 1024D/0E6B06FF _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
