[documentation] Handbook Page - Drupal's page serving mechanism

[Steven Peck]

Greetings and welcome to the team.

As you have a new account, I suggest you check out this link
http://drupal.org/History-mission-and-community, fairly short section.

Anyone with an account has the ability to add Drupal handbook pages.
Any page you add, you can edit (filtered HTML) with no additional
rights.  For the most part we may, edit, tweak and move pages that are
added.  For using Full HTML you need to be added to the document
maintainer role which gives you Full HTML in the handbook and the
ability to edit most of the handbook pages.

Yours is the first request from a very new account (few days), usually
people are involved for a few months before they jump in so I had to
think about it (you'll see the tabs now btw).  

I'm currently the one that has the responsibility to say yes/no but in
general it's a community collaborative effort.  In general as you feel
your way into the community it's a semi-autonomous thing.  Propose, get
feedback, refine, and go ahead.  The developers' handbook is most
visited by the active devs and several of them are fairly good about
keeping it up to date.  

I don't know that anyone is working on documenting the page serving
mechanism.

Basic doc guides are here: http://drupal.org/node/14279 (which needs to
be revisited as they were last really updated over a year ago.  So the
simple rules of thumb are..... 
Don't change the author info, even if you are rewriting the text.
We need more stuff, so if you feel something is missing add it, best
guess if not sure.  I can move it later.
Make sure the revisions box is checked.
Use <code> </code> tags
When in doubt, ask.

The last major handbooks update was almost a year ago.  Things got a lot
better and the questions changed a lot on the forums so this is good.
I've been very very busy at work until recently but have tracked things.
We're probably going to re-org part of the handbook very soon again to
accommodate what we've learned and the changing nature of the community.
I owe Michelle an answer as she was the one with a pretty complete
proposal.  I think we're going to go part way there with it as some
other folks have been asking for some other things lately.  Hope to
spend some time on Sunday mapping out an answer for her.

-sp


-----Original Message-----
From: documentation-bounces at drupal.org
[mailto:documentation-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of Michael Malione
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 10:03 AM
To: documentation at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [documentation] Handbook Page - Drupal's page serving
mechanism

My username is malione, and the link to my ID is
http://drupal.org/user/94150.  I'm new to the
community, so I'm still finding my way around
protocols and procedures.

I've also noticed that I don't have the ability to
edit any of the handbook pages.  What's the procedure
for getting official go-ahead to undertake a task like
the one I'm proposing?

Also, if anybody else has been recently working on
this page, please contact me.

Thanks,
Mike

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Link to your user ID on Drupal.org ?

-----Original Message-----
From: documentation-bounces at drupal.org on behalf of
Michael Malione
Sent: Mon 11/27/2006 6:12 PM
To: documentation at drupal.org
Subject: [documentation] Handbook Page - Drupal's page
serving mechanism
 
I'd like to contribute to this page, bringing it more
in line with the current release of Drupal and making
it more palatable for newcomers to draw relevant
information from it.

I believe that I need permission to post in Full HTML
in order to effect any changes to this page.  Can
someone set me up with this, or if not, is there
anyway I can arrange to send draft copies of this out
to somebody who can review and post it for me?

Thanks,
Mike
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