Hi Everyone,
Regarding keeping up with tasks: I think it's a very good idea, in
general. But I have some reservations. In an open source community, as far as
I've learned, people tend to manage whatever projects they've committed to on
their own, and on their own schedule.
Also, with a project such as this manual/guide, where it can be edited
at any time, by anyone who is interested.... Well, it's really never quite
completed - not any task is ever completely finished.
So having a list of tasks, with the names of the people who are working
on it would be great. But using a list of tasks and putting time constraints on
it - I'm not sure how that could be effective or helpful.
Unless you're talking about the publishing side of it? I can see where
you'd actually want deadlines for certain things, for publishing new versions.
Sort of like when they freeze certain parts of development right before a new
release.
I'm very glad to know we'll be using gitlab to help manage the project!
I remember asking a couple of weeks ago about that.
So now I can create an issue for the proposed different organization of
chapters that I mentioned. And also an Issue about the graphics issues I
mentioned.
But first, I want to make sure that's how we're using it. Or are we
only using Issues for task management?
Thanks,
brynn
-----Original Message-----
From: Maren Hachmann
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2017 5:53 PM
To: Inkscape-Docs
Subject: [Inkscape-docs] [Manual] Updates and news
Hi everyone,
after sending out the message about having felt a bit lonely while
translating the manual, several people sent me some helpful tips on how
to do it better :) (Thanks!)
This update message is the incarnation of one of those.
Also, I was very pleased to see that there are so many people still
interested in helping, and to see some new people to join us on the
Beginners' Guide project. Welcome again, Jabier, Jelle and Marietta!
So, what happened this week?
-----------------------------
- Brynn has worked on a friendly news item to get more contributors that
will soon be published (find it here, if you're a website editor:
https://inkscape.org/en/news/unpublished/812/)
- CR posted a first draft (png) of a cover image, with a tasty Inkscape
ice cream (find it here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/h4n88xpnc6declz/inkscape_cover_beginner_m)
- Jabier has volunteered to work on the CSS a bit, and tested the pdf
export, where he found an issue, which, fortunately, we were able to
solve (see example pdf of draft from a couple of days ago:
http://objavi.booktype.pro/data/books/startwithinkscape-en-2017.06.07
-01.46.42.pdf)
- Jelle offered to help with proofreading, and possibly also with design
- Marietta joined the team, and started out making a public task list
(here: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape-docs/manuals/issues/, more
on that further down) and committed to help keeping it updated. She also
proofread one chapter for language inaccuracies, and offered to help
with the glossary and testing of the manual's effectiveness.
- Martin (doctormo) helped by giving me permissions to manage the manual
task list and members on gitlab
- I have learnt a bit about managing a project this size (at least, I
hope I have... let me know when I'm stepping on your toes, please), did
some investigation on export formats, helped set up the gitlab issues
section, coordinated with members to get them set up, reviewed the news
article and translated and technically reviewed 17 chapters, also
feeding back to Elisa for the original French version.
There are 14 chapters left to be translated, I expect to be done with
that in a week, if nobody else joins me there.
- Together we had some good discussions here on the list, that show that
work on the manual is very much alive :)
Hope I haven't forgotten anyone, and didn't get the facts wrong - if I
have, please blame it on the lack of:
The new task tracker
--------------------
Marietta suggested that we have a task tracker to follow up on tasks and
to keep an overview about responsibilities. This is a good idea (while
currently, I'm still able to keep most of it in my head, that is not a
good place to keep records, and to allow people to self-assign and
update tasks, and to be responsible ;-) - it may also loose some info
here and there), and after a bit of searching, we settled on the *Gitlab
issue tracker* for the *Manuals project* as our base.
As Inkscape's code is currently in the process of moving there, website
translation files and website code already reside there, and most people
who will stay with the project long-term will need an account there
anyway, and as it offers some project management functions, this is a
good place for keeping log of our progress.
We are still thinking a bit about the most useful way to organize issues
there (because of interdependencies).
Everyone in the Beginners' Guide group is invited to create a gitlab
account at
https://gitlab.com/users/sign_in
and to sign up for the tasks Marietta is currently working on adding at
https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape-docs/manuals/issues
You can also add new tasks or request access to the team for helping to
manage tasks.
Please don't take on more tasks than you can work on in parallel. Only
sign up for what you are really currently working on. If you want to
work on a task in the future, but cannot yet, leave a comment there, so
people know who to ask for help.
Kind Regards,
Maren
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