bzr-doc team mailing list archive

[Patrick Regan <patrick.rubbs.regan@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Ian Clatworthy <
ian.clatworthy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Welcome to the Bazaar Documentation Team!
>
> To kick things off, I'd like to point everyone to two useful links that
> you may want to bookmark:
>
> 1. http://bazaar-vcs.org/ContributingToTheDocs
> 2. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bugs?field.tag=doc
>
> The first is our Wiki page outlining how to contribute to the docs. It's
> pretty rough but hopefully it covers the basics. Please feel free to
> improve this document at any time.
>
> The second link is the list of bzr bugs tagged with 'doc'. It currently
> contains 50+ items. It would be nice to reduce that number before 2.1
> ships. I see Patrick has already started the ball rolling by submitting
> a patch to improve the docs for 'bzr ignore' yesterday. Well done!
>
> I'd like to hear everyone's opinions on what we ought to focus our
> energy on in coming months. Should we start some new manuals, clean up
> the existing stuff first or take a completely fresh approach, e.g. build
> a collection of screencasts? Maybe we should write more tutorials
> focussed on particular users, e.g. web developers, technical writers,
> Eclipse developers?
>
> Personally, I'd like to see us build some early momentum by cleaning up
> some of the low hanging fruit in the bug list first. While we're doing
> that, we can be discussing the bigger picture stuff. (It would be
> awesome if everyone had a look over the bug list, picked one or two easy
> bugs and submitted merge proposals to fix them. If you need any
> assistance, don't hesitate to ask.)
>
> What do you think? What should we focus on first?
>
> Ian C.
>
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I'm all for playing catch up for a while. Squashing bugs is an easy way for
me to get used to the processes of getting things submitted. I think the
idea of multi-media tutorials can be very helpful. If I can find my find my
microphone, I'd be willing to create some video tutorials.

I think that cleaning up the docs we have is important and a reasonable goal
for the near future, but I would like to see some possible re-writes to the
tutorials. As a new(ish) user, they were very helpful, but missing in some
topics (such as shared repos with no trees).

I'm really up for whatever though.

Pat