On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 10:06 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote: > Hi folks, > > This is another half-baked idea in my brain. > > "What's New" pages are really nice to have in application help. > Users who love the program love to look at a succinct list of > cool new things they can do. So let's do them, yeah? > > But how about we don't do them, and instead ask developers to > do them. We'll put a page with a standard name (whatsnew.page) > in the help. When the developers merge in cool new features, > they can just add a bullet point to this file. > > <item><p>You can now frobnicate files!</p></item> > > They'll forget sometimes, of course. So at feature freeze we > send them a reminder to look at whatsnew.page and make sure it > has everything. > > Developers don't need to write the final content. They'd just > provide basic bullet points. We'll go through their bullet > points, decide if we have to write new help because of them > (we probably do), and then make the "What's New" page shiny. > > Does this sound like something we'd like to explore? > > -- > Shaun > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-doc-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
Love it. Devs are required to update new features for the release notes too, which will help as it is a similar process. Paul _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
