Docs toolchain

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Fri Apr 4 15:09:08 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 15:49 +1000, Asgeir Frimannsson wrote:
> On Friday 04 April 2008 01:03:08 pm Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > After the dust settles from the Fedora 9 release, around the week of
> > 5th-9th May, we should try and set up a Docs toolchain group to assess
> > what work needs to be done with our toolchain:
> >
> > 1. Fix lingering problems
> > 2. Make enhancements for usability
> > 3. Integrate publican
> > 4. Other?
> 4. Make sure any changes integrate well with L10N Toolchain
> 5. Others?

Excellent, thank you! :-)

> > Can we set up a weekly meeting on IRC Freenode (#fedora-docs) on a
> > weeknight (Sunday-Thursday) so that we can involve the Red Hat Docs
> > people in Brisbane?  I've been doing a weekly phone call with that
> > group, but this would be a good way to move that conversation into
> > community space where it rightly belongs.  Relaying messages is really
> > inefficient, and this gives the Docs team at Red Hat a good introduction
> > to our toolchain, and lets them participate in integrating publican.
> > This would be equivalent to the way the rest of Red Hat's engineers and
> > developers work with the community and would lead to renewed bonds and
> > teamwork.
> >
> > I'll obviously participate since I have pretty good knowledge of our
> > tools, but that knowledge needs to leave my head and get into a lot of
> > others.  Mainly that's because I'm no longer able to spend the time on
> > this work that it deserves.
> >
> > Who's up for helping?  I promise if I can learn this stuff, you can too.
> > It would be great to see some other contributors besides the people
> > already carrying substantial load.  If you can run shell commands, you
> > can understand our tool set.
> 
> I'll be there representing the L10N side of things, provided the meeting is at 
> a reasonable time of day :)

Yes, I want the meeting to happen on a weenight after 2300 UTC (7:00pm
US/Eastern, 4:00pm US/Pacific) so that we can make sure you folks in
Brisbane can be involved -- Brisbane is UTC +10 for those who don't
know.

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