I'd be willing to go +1 on a separate instance, if it's not too much trouble to 
host and people are familiar with administrating it.  I think it's good to keep 
things separate.  Seeing all of the software bugs could certainly be 
overwhelming if you're only looking to help with documentation.

Sincerely,
Michael Peters
Indiana State Library MIS | Inspire.IN.gov Helpdesk | Evergreen Indiana Helpdesk
office - 317.234.2128
email - [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>

From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
Duimovich, George
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 12:28 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] Launchpad instance


This may have been already discussed, but I've noticed that launchpad has been 
occasionally used for website / documentation issues & gaps, in particular, 
with release or install documentation "bugs" and so on.

I wonder if a *separate* launchpad instance could be effectively used by 
documentation group (say https://launchpad.net/evergreen-docs) for the general 
docs effort associated with docs.evergreen-ils.org ?.

The current listserv and intermingling selected doc bugs with code bugs on 
launchpad may be working well enough, but I'm just wondering if a separate 
instance might help give better focus towards streaming tickets towards areas 
that are formally being looked after, as well as helping to identify gaps in 
documentation currently not well "owned" or edited by anyone, etc.

A separate instance would still allow coders and documentation contributors to 
link to each other but maybe there's other advantages to a separate instance 
too, such as allowing developers to browse specific tickets related to their 
work?

This could be especially useful for areas where organized effort is lacking but 
for which we could benefit by aggregating tickets/bugs/wishlists into task 
bundles for eventual one-shot efforts, or for volunteers acting as content 
editors for specific sections etc.  So maybe we don't have a formal editor for 
this or that docs content, but a bundle of outstanding tickets organized / 
tagged for specific documentation area(s) could help a new volunteer (or vendor 
effort), as well as to help identify content areas lacking any sustained 
oversight.

Or maybe launchpad or other ticketing system may be too much effort for the 
current size of the docs community?

George

George Duimovich
NRCan Library / Bibliothèque de RNCan




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