Re: Contribution of Sun documentation team to the GDP.

[Patrick Costello <Patrick Costello Sun COM>]

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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