Hi Steve - <br><br>I'm not sure I totally understand what you're asking, ie. what part of the process you need more info about.<br><br>That said - if you think that a section of text needs updating, you can post an issue for it on the issue queue <a href="http://drupal.org/node/add/project-issue">http://drupal.org/node/add/project-issue</a> and post a patch there. If it's a major change (not just fixing a grammatical error), it will need to be discussed/reviewed/okayed by other members of the doc team or whoever works on that project.<br>
<br>This Tuesday is a deadline for changing strings though, so that translators can start their work, so the patch would have to be reviewed and committed by then if it is more than just a bug.<br><br>Hope that helps,<br>
Ariane<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Steve Kessler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skessler@denverdataman.com">skessler@denverdataman.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
How do we submit patches for specific strings...like the explanation of cron<br>
on admin/config/system/site-information<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Steve<br>
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From: Jennifer Hodgdon [mailto:<a href="mailto:yahgrp@poplarware.com">yahgrp@poplarware.com</a>]<br>
Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:36 PM<br>
To: A list for documentation writers<br>
Subject: [documentation] String freeze Dec 1st!<br>
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Hello Doc Team,<br>
<br>
I just want to say first how exciting it has been that so many of you<br>
pitched in to help with the help system overview! Tremendous progress<br>
has been made; now it's mostly a matter of reviewing/updating patches<br>
and getting them committed. See <a href="http://drupal.org/node/537828" target="_blank">http://drupal.org/node/537828</a> if you<br>
are curious about what's been happening and get involved.<br>
<br>
Anyway... I found out today that the upcoming User Experience (UX)<br>
freeze for Drupal 7 is also supposed to include a "string freeze".<br>
Which is to say, all of the text within Drupal 7 that needs to be<br>
translated (help text and user interface text) is supposed to be<br>
frozen on December 1st -- less than 2 weeks away -- aside from "bugs"<br>
(which after December 1st means just spelling and minor grammatical<br>
errors, not totally rewriting or rearranging). That includes the D7<br>
help effort!<br>
<br>
So, I would like to suggest that both programming and non-programming<br>
members of the Drupal Documentation team (this means you, if you are<br>
subscribed to this email list) -- if you have some free time between<br>
now and December 1st, you can try:<br>
<br>
a) Installing Drupal 7 (you can download the latest version at<br>
<a href="http://drupal.org/project/drupal" target="_blank">http://drupal.org/project/drupal</a> if you are not using CVS) and<br>
reviewing the text you see on its user interface and help. My<br>
suggestion is to enable all of the core modules (especially the Help<br>
module), try out some of the features/tasks/screens, and if you find<br>
something in the user interface that doesn't make sense, file an issue.<br>
<br>
Hints on filing an issue:<br>
- Start from <a href="http://drupal.org/node/add/project-issue/drupal" target="_blank">http://drupal.org/node/add/project-issue/drupal</a><br>
- Version: 7.x<br>
- Component: The module or theme the problem is in, or "documentation"<br>
if it is in a help file.<br>
- Category: Bug report<br>
- It is very helpful to put in a good summary in the Title, and a full<br>
description of the problem you saw, where you saw it (what screen --<br>
give the Drupal path), when you saw it (if you had to enter or do<br>
something to get this bad text to appear), why you think it is bad,<br>
and if possible your suggested better text.<br>
<br>
b) Reviewing proposed patches. Search using the Advanced Search<br>
interface starting at <a href="http://drupal.org/project/issues/search/drupal" target="_blank">http://drupal.org/project/issues/search/drupal</a><br>
for issues that have status "needs review", version 7.x, and one of<br>
the following:<br>
- Tagged with "ui-text" [without the quotes, of course]<br>
- Tagged with "Help text"<br>
- Tagged with "d7help"<br>
<br>
Hints on patch review:<br>
- Even if you are not a programmer, you can still review the text in<br>
these patches. Scroll down to the bottom of the issue's comments, and<br>
find the latest patch attachment. Click on the attachment, and the<br>
lines with + are being added, lines with - are being removed.<br>
- If you think the patch is good, add a comment saying what part you<br>
reviewed and that you thought it was good.<br>
- If you think the patch needs some work, change the status of the<br>
issue to "needs work", and add a specific comment about what you think<br>
should be changed (if possible, with a suggestion of what to change it<br>
to).<br>
<br>
c) Participate in the D7 Usability sprint this weekend if you can:<br>
<a href="http://webchick.net/node/72" target="_blank">http://webchick.net/node/72</a><br>
<br>
Thanks, and keep up the good work!<br>
<br>
--Jennifer<br>
<br>
ps: If you need help with filing issues or reviewing patches, you can<br>
get advice from the doc team on our IRC channel - #drupal-docs. See<br>
<a href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/2326" target="_blank">http://groups.drupal.org/node/2326</a> for info on IRC if you don't know<br>
how to connect. There are also useful links on<br>
<a href="http://drupal.org/node/540308" target="_blank">http://drupal.org/node/540308</a><br>
<br>
--<br>
Jennifer Hodgdon * Poplar ProductivityWare<br>
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Drupal, WordPress, and custom Web programming<br>
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