Re: Proposal to manage documentation similar to (or along with) core software.

Alex Clark <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.zope.plone.documentation
Organization ACLARK.NET, LLC
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2010-04-14, JoAnna Springsteen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Excellent summary Israel!
>
> What aclark has proposed is really nothing new. We've been talking
> about doing this since the google doc sprint in 2007. The goal for the
> past few years has always been to release up to date docs when a new
> release of Plone is sent out.

Right, but up to date docs != versioning. We have not *versioned* and
*released* docs to date. That needs to start happening now with Plone 4 IMO,
so that by the time Plone 5 rolls around we can look back and say
"Ahhhh, these are the docs we shipped with Plone 4".

> The key issue here is getting people to commit to volunteering and
> then ensuring they follow through with their committments. 
> 1-2 hours a
> week is an under-estimate of the effort required. Documentation is
> time intensive and it will always be a moving target, as Israel
> mentions.
> A lesson learned to keep in mind is that no matter what plans you make
> or how much you formalize the process, if you can't get people to
> follow through on what they say they will do, you can't make progress.

Pay the release manager and the doc team will either deliver, or suffer
the consequences. ;-)

> j.
>
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