[documentation] Topics/Tasks for Drupalcon Friday Docs Sprint

[Joshua Brauer]

One more, hopefully brief, topic I'd like to propose...

Deciding on the good candidates for case studies for the journalism  
students to work with. We'll have 8 students so I'd like to line up 10  
or so solid case studies for them to write up. I've had a few people  
contact me from the earlier discussion and have a couple of good ideas  
but if we could collectively put some names to this that would be great.

The IRC channel is a great idea. I'll be in Boston but leaving mid-day  
on Thursday so I'll be coming to the sprint virtually.

Thanks,
Josh


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On Feb 27, 2008, at 6:52 AM, Addison Berry wrote:

> Hey folks,
>
> Drupalcon approacheth and I have a loose list of things that we could
> try to organize around on during the Friday (March 7) code/docs sprint
> (http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/codesprintt). I know not everyone can
> make it to Drupalcon, so I'd like to set up a #drupal-docs IRC channel
> during the sprint so folks can get in on the conversation and take
> part in the sprint as well.
>
> In the meantime here are some topics/tasks that are high on my radar
> for the sprint. Please add to this task list, particularly if you are
> willing to "head it up" as it were, i.e. explain the task and answer
> questions, get newbies situated for the task, etc.
>
> CVS docs: 	http://drupal.org/handbook/cvs (also related, the
> Maintaining a project section: http://drupal.org/node/7765)
> 	I have been slowly tinkering with this section and we will have Derek
> (dww) and other CVS/project devs handy for clarifying questions and a
> bunch of newer devs around to give feedback. This is a tricky place
> for lots of folks and my personal mission is to bring this section
> home (or at least closer.) :-)
>
> Clean URLs docs: 	http://drupal.org/node/15365
> 	This is an important section for people setting up their site. It is
> overwhelming and a bunch of pages are pretty old. We need to review,
> update and consolidate.
>
> Getting Started for D6
> 	This is the new section Steven Peck started with D5. It is a
> different sort of section since the document is actually in DocBook
> format and then we export the pages for HTML and into the PDF doc we
> offer. This makes it a little harder to collaborate with upgrading it
> to 6, but with everyone in the room we should be able to make a lot of
> headway.
>
> Clean up the docs issue queue: 	http://drupal.org/project/issues/documentation
> 	We've got almost 300 issues in the documentation queue, some going
> back 2 years. Let's systematically go through and review the issues to
> see which are still pertinent and try to weed it down a bit. Also a
> great way to find some random tasks that may interest you.
>
> Comment rolling: 	http://drupal.org/handbook/comments
> 	Handbook pages shouldn't have comments. We need to review the pages
> that do and clean 'em up. First pass is to delete irrelevant and
> support questions. Then we need to look at the page and determine how
> to update the page (or add new, related pages) to address the
> meaningful comments. Josh Brauer has been doing great work on this
> front lately.
>
> Adding screenshots and graphics
> 	Everyone wants 'em! Docs team members can add 'em! Some prime
> candidates for this kind of thing are tutorials with screenies of the
> steps but we could also use things like charts and workflows to give
> people a picture to help make some concepts more clear.
>
> These last two items, Comment rolling and Screenshots, can be done
> anywhere and everywhere but some of the most popular pages (http://drupal.org/handbook/most-popular-pages
> ) would be a good place to start with them.
> --
> Pending work: http://drupal.org/project/issues/documentation/
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