On Sat, 2011-07-16 at 13:38 +0100, Phil Bull wrote: > Hi Shaun, > > On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 18:52 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote: > > This is interesting: > > > > https://sites.google.com/site/docsprintsummit/ > > > > Should we get in on this? > > Possibly, but it seems quite focused on books. Since we're mostly doing > topic-based help, I don't know if we'd get much out of it.
I tweeted something to the same effect. We're not really in the business of doing book-like things. I don't know why people get so hung up on doing books. > Do we have any software that requires a quick-start guide? (Evolution > might be a candidate, for example.) We should possibly think about doing > more guide-based documentation, but I don't think we'd ever need > anything more than short guides. Books seem like overkill. I'd be curious to see how Adam Hyde would approach a book-like thing for GNOME users. But I don't think it's something we'd end up using and maintaining long-term, so it would mostly be a curiosity. I think our team has gotten really good a topic-oriented help, and we could probably help others starting down that path. The doc camp might be more beneficial for developer docs. Although I think we've got a good (and not book-like) plan in place for that. We just need more people working on it more often. I'll probably apply to go to the doc camp regardless. But I can just go as an individual contributor if we don't think it's worth sending the GNOME team. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
