There was a Mozilla Documentation Project at http://www.mozilla.org/docs/mdp/, with an attempt to track who was doing what at http://www.mozilla.org/docs/mdp/docstat.html. Curiously, those pages don't appear navigable from the new Documentation pages (how did that happen?). In any case, there needs to a similar framework set up that would link up individuals to projects.
I've met at least three paid employees over the years at mozilla.org who claimed that "documentation" was among their responsibilities. Not sure what that meant, really. But if mozilla.org is the clearinghouse for the Mozilla effort, and documentation is essential to the well-being of the project, than someone from mozilla.org (i.e., a paid someone) should step forward and assume the mantle of Benevolent Dictator of the doc realm, or ensure that someone from the Moz volunteer community has that role. My opinion. --Steve Ellen Evans wrote: > Recently there was a situation in which two people turned out to be > working on more or less the same document at the same time. I'm sure > it's happened before. At the moment there isn't a documentation module > that could have a module owner who might serve as a somewhat more > focussed clearing house re: the documentation effort. This wouldn't be > someone who chooses what gets documented, just someone who, within the > limits of possibility, keeps track. > > The newsgroup is good, but I think having a person, or a limited set of > people, tracking what is getting done might be of value. If someone is > thinking of adding a document, having to go through the newsgroup just > to figure out what is and isn't being done is fairly burdensome. > > Any thoughts? >
