Re: Contribution of Sun documentation team to the GDP.

[Alexander Kirillov <kirillov math sunysb edu>]

I'd like to help, but I do not think I can take over this. I might
contibute something from time to time - but this is obviously not good
enough for maintianing the community verison of UG. Sorry. 

Sasha

On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 08:59, Patrick Costello wrote:
> So what we need now is for a likely candidate to step forward and work with
> Brian to take over the GNOME 2.8 User Guide...
> 
> Pat
> 
> Brian Casey wrote:
> > 
> > > [snip]
> > 
> > > There are, by the way, a few problems with the 2.6.0 User Guide that
> > > should be addressed for 2.6.1.  It appears some JDS stuff slipped into
> > > the community docs.  Can Brian or another of the Sun team address this
> > > for 2.6.1, or should we try to find somebody else for that?
> > >
> > 
> > > [snip]
> > 
> > >>Oh dear. Not too surprising that JDS topics have slipped through
> > >>considering we have pushed to the limit the capabilities of marked
> > >>sections. This was exactly the sort of thing that I have been worrying
> > >>about. Also, we were having real difficulties getting hold of latest
> > >>community builds as opposed to latest builds flavored with JDS. I think
> > >>what has happened here is that Brian genuinely thought he was documenting
> > >>the latest GNOME community build, but was inadvertently capturing JDS
> > >>functionality as well. Therefore, I think the best thing that we can do to
> > >>be sure is to find someone willing to take on working on the GNOME 2.8
> > >>Desktop User Guide right away, and Brian can act as peer reviewer and
> > >>general advisor. This should enable Brian and the new author of the UG to
> > >>triangulate the information and thereby eliminate any JDS flavorings.
> > 
> > >>Brian
> > >>- would you have time to support a new contributor to the community UG, as
> > >>a peer reviewer?
> > 
> > I certainly will offer as much support as I can. The main issue I
> > foresee is having a copy of the latest clean Community build (withour
> > JDS flavor) on my machine to test and verify while performing a peer
> > review.
> > 
> > Rgds,
> > 
> > Brian
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