[documentation] Videos for Drupal 6

[Steven Peck]

Talk to and coordinate with Addison.  She took over the organization
of that section.

Steven

On Jan 28, 2008 11:10 AM, Greg Knaddison - GVS
<Greg at growingventuresolutions.com> wrote:
> Howdy Documenters,
>
> I have two topics I want to discuss.  First - organization of the
> Videocasts section of the D.o handbooks - http://drupal.org/videocasts
>
> I think it would make sense to re-organize this by major release of
> Drupal.  I.e. a top level page for 5.x, 6.x, and 4.7 and earlier.
> Gabor and I discussed this in IRC today as a way to help make it easy
> to find the 6.x videos that will be linked form the 6.0 release
> announcement ( http://drupal.org/drupal-6.0 if you want to help
> editing it).  Some of the pages in that section are "timeless" like
> how to create or apply a patch - that is valuable regardless of Drupal
> version.  But some are very specific to version (upgrading) which
> makes me think that we should split the version specific videos into
> book pages for each version and then "general videos" will stay at
> their current locations.
>
> Here's the current hierarchy:
>
> -Videos
>
> -- Overviews
> --- New Features in Drupal6
> --- New i18n and l10n features in Drupal 6
> --- Drupal 5 Features
> --- What's new in Drupal 5
> --- Drupal Features and Overview
>
> -- Installation and Upgrading
> --- Installing Drupal 6
> --- Installing Drupal 5
> --- Upgrading to Drupal 5
> --- Dudertown Installing 4.7
> --- Installing Drupal 4.7
>
> My proposed hierarchy:
>
> -- Introduction to Drupal6
> --- New Features in Drupal6
> --- New i18n and l10n features in Drupal 6
> --- Installing Drupal 6
> --- Upgrading to Drupal6
>
> -- Introduction to Drupal5
> --- Drupal 5 Features
> --- What's new in Drupal 5
> --- Installing Drupal 5
> --- Upgrading to Drupal 5
>
> -- Introduction to Drupal4.7
> --- Dudertown Installing 4.7
> --- Installing Drupal 4.7
>
> The rest of the handbooks are less complete on a "per version" basis
> and I think should be left as-is.  There's also less that changes
> about, for example, blocks from 4.7->5.x->6.x
>
> Second, I want to coordinate on making sure that we get them all done.
> 1. Installing Drupal6 - done by Addi -
> http://www.lullabot.com/videocasts/installing-drupal-6
> 2. New features of Drupal6 - done by me (will redo this week) -
> http://www.masteringdrupal.com/screencast/new-features-drupal-6
> 3. i18n and l10n features of Drupal6 - done by me -
> http://www.masteringdrupal.com/screencast/new-i18n-l10n-features-drupal-6
> 4. Upgrading from Drupal 5.x to 6.x - I believe I will be doing this one
> 5. Anything else specific to the release?
>
> I know there are plenty of other ideas related to videos for Drupal in
> general - I'm just trying to make sure we've covered the most
> important videos for the new release process.
>
> Thanks,
> Greg
>
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