GDP Status Update - June 2009
June Accomplishments
Four team members attended WOSCON - write-up available on lgo and sent to travel-committee: http://live.gnome.org/DocumentationProject/Community/Woscon2009
- Took the opportunity to re-organize the team focusing on Writers, Editors and Translators
- Wiki re-org in progress (major revamp of lgo front page to make it easier to find content and get involved. Need to finish Writer, Editor and Tasks pages)
- Translator page started by Milo Casagrande
- Wiki re-org in progress (major revamp of lgo front page to make it easier to find content and get involved. Need to finish Writer, Editor and Tasks pages)
- Committed to regular team meetings
Project status meeting last Sunday of every month. June recap: http://live.gnome.org/DocumentationProject/Meeting20090628
- Bi-weekly open community question and answer sessions. Sessions held 16-JUN-2009 and 24-JUN-2009.
Launched team project blog at http://blogs.gnome.org/docs
- Bugzilla cleanup, including reviewing over half of all bugs, closing a third of them, and a number of commits to improve the User Guide
GNOME 3.0 Goals & Progress
- GNOME 2.28
Yelp 2.27.2 and gnome-docs-utils 0.17.2 released, including Project Mallard support (ShaunMcCance)
- TODO: xml2po support and stylesheets (See June meeting minutes for details)
Write Empathy and Banshee documentation in Mallard as proof of concept (Empathy - Phil Bull & Milo Casagrande) (Banshee - Paul Cutler)
- New license - CC-SA 3.0 (no more GFDL)
- Use topic based help (instead of task based, which is what GNOME 2.2x currently has)
- GNOME 3.0
- Re-write GNOME User Guide and Accessibility guides in Mallard as topic based help
- Change license to CC-SA 3.0
- Write GNOME Shell and GNOME Zeitgeist help
- Re-write GNOME User Guide and Accessibility guides in Mallard as topic based help
July To-Do
ShaunMcCance on vacation for 3 weeks in June
- Follow up with Danilo on help with xml2po (Shaun)
- Review Empathy survey answers (Milo)
Finish wiki page revamp (Editors, Writers & Tasks - Paul & Phil)