[documentation] Summary of Aug. 21 IRC meeting

[Addison Berry]

Here is a short summary and link to the IRC logs for the Aug, 21  
meeting. Thanks to everyone who came, especially the new folks! Our  
next "meeting" will be the sprint on August 31. I'll be sending a  
separate email out to the team with more information about the sprint  
and how we will tie in folks that aren't in Szeged.

IRC log: http://pastebin.com/f5f2a83cd

We had 2 agenda items on deck from the mail list and 2 added at the  
beginning. The final agenda of 4 items:
1. Getting Involved handbook status
2. Doc sprint ideas
3. Getting started guide issues
4. Programming best practices page

1. Getting Involved handbook status
	Basically we looked at the queue (http://drupal.org/project/issues?text=Contrib 
  redesign:&states=1,16,8,13,14,15,2,4), noted that we will have work  
to do and reviewed what needs to be done for those that were new or  
not clear about what the issues entailed. We have gotten a bunch of  
work done on the issues and most of them are CNW or CNR. We have a few  
issues that still need attention. We will keep working on these  
through DrupalCon week and hopefully we can reorg soon. We cana't  
reorg til the issues are sussed out though.

2. Doc sprint ideas
	I posted a starter list of both tasks to do during the sprint as well  
as larger discussions that need to happen. The floor was opened for  
others to add to the list. I have posted the results (plus a few more  
I thought of after) on the DrupalCon site (http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/node/1629 
). Please feel free to add to the list either in that forum post or on  
the mail list.

3. Getting started guide issues
	This was raised by Josh and so we *briefly* discussed the issue we  
have with the Guide being in DocBook that is not in CVS and what that  
means for updating the guide. (I.e. either we can't update pages  
without a long process or if we do update the pages, then the PDF and  
handbook are out of sync. Also not all site maintainers, that have  
rights to edit these pages, realize they shouldn't edit them.) This is  
a topic for discussion on the sprint list so we will delve into this  
conversation more at that time.

4. Programming best practices page
	aj045 has created a new page (http://drupal.org/node/287350) and  
wanted to get feedback on the idea of it. This is a general  
programming best practices guide. The consensus seemed to be that it  
was a good idea but that it should try to stay as narrowly focused as  
possible.

- Addi (add1sun)