[documentation] Docs Team meetings/group was: Proposal for a "Contributing to Drupal" handbook section

[Steven Peck]

Yet another groups page?  What's wrong with email list?

A note, I have been off work for a week now and am slowly recovering
and trying to get stuff written and responded too.

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Addison Berry <drupal at rocktreesky.com> wrote:
>
>  On Mar 17, 2008, at 5:40 PM, Jacob Roufa wrote:
>
>  > What would you all think of creating a "Doc Team Support" page
>  > somewheres stating that we're available on IRC at #drupal-docs and
>  > we will meet at posted times for flowing (as opposed to mailing
>  > list / broken) discussion?
>
>  I've added the channel info to http://drupal.org/contribute/documentation
>  . I'm not sure that a new page is warranted right now. I'd rather wait
>  to see the new structure for the docs section and see if we can
>  repurpose an existing page. We have a lot of pages for the docs team
>  and I think we already have way more than anyone will ever read so I'd
>  like to try to consolidate and streamline the info flow.
>
>  Perhaps we should consider a group on g.d.o? I have mixed feelings
>  about using g.d.o so I'd like to hear thoughts on this but with the
>  docs forum deprecated (I never even knew we had one and never looked
>  at it - I am not a "forums" person) this would give us a place to
>  discuss and do some organizing. g.d.o is getting panels so groups will
>  have more flexibility in setting up their group. We can link the
>  contribute to docs page to the g.d.o group and then have announcements
>  and upcoming events there. Anyway, I dunno. What do you all think?
>
>  > (Wed-Thurs evenings at 5-7pm Eastern time work all the time for
>  > everyone or at least majority of people?) I think it might be nice
>  > to have a set time every week or other week that we meet to discuss
>  > this. More organization (but not too much) I believe would help with
>  > getting all of these substantial changes underway.
>
>  A regular time isn't going to work for me (my schedule can vary a lot)
>  and I honestly wouldn't be able to meet on a weekly basis but if there
>  are enough people interested I think that is a good use of the
>  channel. In terms of realistically attending, for me personally, a
>  monthly meeting that is determined fresh each month would work a lot
>  better.
>
>  - Addi
>  --
>  Pending work: http://drupal.org/project/issues/documentation/
>  List archives: http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/documentation/
>