*raises hand.

I'm spending a few hours every week on this process.  Also, I think we
should have a doc sprint in the near future, as a prelude to TG 2.1a1
release.

cheers.
-chris

On Sep 2, 11:02 pm, Michael Pedersen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Okay, I've been working on these docs quite a bit since I first sent this
> out. As of a few minutes ago, I finally managed to complete the first file
> reviews. Every single file was read by me, and quite a few "todo" items were
> noted. As of right now, I've got 128 items on the todo list. That does not
> cover the emails I've saved from this list as "get this documented", which
> I'm now adding. Nor does it include docs tickets from trac.tg.org, which
> will be forthcoming soon.
>
> Basically, we now have a mostly fixed target set of items for the docs.
> Who's ready to help me start whittling this list down?
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Michael Pedersen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Lukasz Szybalski 
> > <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> >> > The output is visible 
> >> > athttp://web.icelus.tzo.com/~marvin/tg2/<http://web.icelus.tzo.com/%7Emarvin/tg2/>
>
> >> How is this different then the official tg2 docs? Not sure what you're
> >> plan is but wouldn't it be easier to modify the original content and
> >> add the few sections that you have above. Work on the original to get
> >> the pdf generated, and keep modifying until all the information is in
> >> the same place?
>
> > As to how it's different, compare these two pages:
> >http://turbogears.org/2.0/docs/index.html
> >http://web.icelus.tzo.com/~marvin/tg2<http://web.icelus.tzo.com/%7Emarvin/tg2>
>
> > When you do, ask a couple of questions (and pretend you know nothing at all
> > about TG when you do, this is your first time looking at the docs, etc):
>
> >    1. How do I get this installed?
> >    2. What are the pieces that come with TG?
> >    3. How can I use those pieces?
> >    4. What are some of the common patterns for coding in TG?
> >    5. What plugins are available?
>
> > And those are just some starter questions. Once you've started asking those
> > questions, try to find the answers using the older style and the newer
> > style. In my own experience, and along with the feedback I've seen so far,
> > the style I'm promoting will be significantly easier to navigate. Instead of
> > screens full of links, we have actual text describing what people can expect
> > to find. We have (just beginning) an actual "to do list", so that we can
> > identify where we've left documentation holes that need to be plugged. We
> > have clearly defined areas for people to be able to submit their own docs on
> > various items.
>
> > Personally, I find the newer style much easier to read and navigate.
>
> > As to "work on the original", that's exactly what I'm doing. The original
> > source for the docs is available at
> >http://bitbucket.org/mramm/tg_2_1_docs/This is a Mercurial repository
> > which I have forked (and my fork is visible at
> >http://bitbucket.org/pedersen/tg_2_1_docs/). I've even sent along a pull
> > request already for the base changes I've done, and I'm looking to get back
> > to the documentation much more seriously tonight than I have been for a few
> > days (July 4th weekend for me was fun, but busy).
> > --
> > Michael J. Pedersen
> > My IM IDs: Jabber/[email protected], ICQ/103345809,
> > AIM/pedermj022171
> >          Yahoo/pedermj2002, MSN/[email protected]
>
> --
> Michael J. Pedersen
> My IM IDs: Jabber/[email protected], ICQ/103345809, AIM/pedermj022171
>          Yahoo/pedermj2002, MSN/[email protected]
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