Xfce documentation and Wiki Ideas

Nathan Thomas nathan.thomas at peacenik.co.uk
Sat Jan 22 09:54:57 UTC 2011


>>> Upon brainstorming, I thought that perhaps we use wiki as our
>>> testing grounds for what goes into the Official Documentation. We
>>> can all decide what makes it in, and while transferring it to
>>> Official Documentation we can also create portable formats for
>>> users. I think we should branch Wiki documentation into two areas,
>>> Stable and Rawhide, because I know some users already compile and
>>> use the newest releases and updates for Fedora and we can get a
>>> jump start on Rawhide Documentation by allowing those individuals
>>> to contribute in that wiki. Rawhide documentation could then
>>> transfer into stable after review and finally transfer to official
>>> docs prior to Rawhide's release.
>> That sounds good to me.
>>
>> Currently, f13/f14 have 4.6 and rawhide has 4.8, so there will be
>> differences. It would be good to keep them seperate and work on them
>> each.
>>
>> I like the idea of writing up drafts and getting it put together
>> before we import it into publican to allow widespead docs. :)
>>
>> kevin
> Sounds good. I will start splitting wiki into stable and rawhide. If
> anyone else wants to help feel free to email me and we can figure out
> where each other left off. I will start write ups on rawhide and a
> user-guide asap as well.
>
Good stuff. Perhaps if we make a list on the wiki of all the topics we 
want to cover in the guide, a kind of outline of the document structure, 
then people can just fill in the sections as they go along?

Nathan



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