[drupal-docs] Planning for the Drupal 4.7 Documentation Sprint

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I like option 2) as an idea, if it could be made to work.

On a related note, I'm hoping we could at some point have a  
'documentation freeze'
for the handbook, which would enable us to export the entire beast,  
bulk edit it
to spellcheck, grammar check, clean up HTML, and in general whip it  
into shape,
and then re-import.  This shouldn't take too long (Djun the optimist)  
- I'm willing
to work on this.

    Djun




On 28 Aug 2005, at 9:01 PM, Charlie Lowe wrote:

> With the Drupal feature freeze underway, it won't be long now  
> before we need to begin a documentation sprint for Drupal 4.7 to  
> update the existing admin/help documentation that Kieran previously  
> worked so hard on.
>
> The purpose of this email is to discuss the best process for  
> achieving this. As I see it, there are two approaches:
>
> 1) The Drupal docs team reviews all of the admin/help docs in the  
> following sections:
>
> http://drupal.org/handbook/modules
> http://drupal.org/handbook/config/contribmodules
>
> Problem with this:
>
> * difficult to coordinate
> * many contrib modules are not updated until after the release  
> candidate right before Drupal 4.7 will be official released (if not  
> afterwards). Depending on how module API's have been changed for  
> this release (is this a factor?), they may not work until then.
>
> I would imagine we would need to shoot for reviews and updates of  
> the core modules right before and right after Drupal 4.7 RC.
>
> 2) A better way to do this would be to implement an ongoing  
> process, one that would require the participation of developers.  
> *If* we could get developers working on modules to submit  
> Documentation issues when they have made changes to a module which  
> requires a documentaiton update, we could take care of these on a  
> case-by-base basis, with a big push to finish up any during the RC  
> release in time for the stable version. Also, this would allow us  
> to track needed changes to contrib module documentation and provide  
> patches for subsequent updates.
>
> ****
>
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Charlie Lowe
>
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