Re: Documentation for next cycle

[Ryan Paul <gaerdin gmail com>]

I'm new to the GNOME documentation team, and I would really like to help
out and do some work for this cycle, but I'm having a little bit of
trouble getting started. I have read through most of the style guide and
part of the handbook, and I guess I'm just feeling a bit intimidated by
all the details. When I first decided to participate, I thought I would
be able to simply jump in and start writing. Unfortunately, my
experience as a journalist isn't quite as applicable to doc writing as I
had initially imagined.

I think that I might be more successful if I could start with some
straightforward, specific tasks. Perhaps somebody could give me some
simple assignments, get me started, and help me avoid common pitfalls? I
don't want to impose on anyone, but I think I'm going to need guidance
in order to be productive.

Thanks!

-- Ryan

On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 08:50 -0600, Brent Smith wrote:
> Two things I would like to see in the documentation for next cycle:
> 
> * New file permissions functionality in Nautilus (Christian blogged
> about this here: http://blogs.gnome.org/view/cneumair/2006/03/06/0)
> * Autostart spec  - Rodrigo Moya is a good contact for this
> (spec is here: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fautostart_2dspec)
> 
> file permissions should be added to the user guide
> autostart should be added to the system administration guide
> 
> Any volunteers for these?
> 
> The docs are of course in CVS under the module gnome-user-docs.
> 
> Please drop by #docs at irc.gnome.org if you are interested.
>