[documentation] Szeged Doc Sprint summary

[Michael Booth]

I'm very glad to see that you've created RSS announcements for the Doc  
Team (http://groups.drupal.org/documentation-team). That will reduce  
the odds that I miss future meetings!

Thanks for all your hard work.

   Mike Booth (mechfish)


On Sep 3, 2008, at 7:14 AM, Addison Berry wrote:

> Here is a "short" summary of the Doc sprint we had at Szeged. It was
> an awesome time and I can't capture all of it in here. I just wanted
> to list of the big points (that I even know about). Lots of people
> were working on all kinds of stuff so I'm sure more was done than I
> can cover here. The biggest bummer for me is that I couldn't really
> manage to extend to the sprint into the evening which would have made
> it more possible for folks in North America to attend. I do have a
> bunch of thoughts on more sprints though, so stay tuned for a post
> about that in the next week or so.
>
> So, here is a quick list of stuff we accomplished. I don't have the
> names of everyone who helped out, so I'm sorry that I can't list them
> all out. There were too many people ;-) and I only had a chance to
> meet most of them briefly.
> - Thanks to Niels Bom and David Strauss we had a chunked up list of
> docs issues that needed components converted so that went swimmingly.
> It was tedious but a big thansk to everyone for rocking that.
> - We also moved anything in the Documentation in CVS component to
> Drupal core's queue under the Documentation component there once
> webchick gave the go ahead.
> - Paschal Ssemaganda assisted the Usability team with a bunch of
> component work as well so they could close down the User Experience
> project.
> - Joachim Noreiko wrote the new simple tasks page at http://drupal.org/node/302146
>  and worked on a bit of clean up of the Contributing to Docs section.
> - Once the simple task page was written a *lot* of folks reviewed the
> task page and worked on the tasks listed. ;-) Everyone should please
> review the page and make improvements. We want to have a clear place
> to send new docs folks so they can dig in right away and feel like
> they have some direction.
> - We opened up the Getting started guide for Drupal 6 (http://drupal.org/getting-started/6
> ) to editing by the docs team (it was previously restricted by input
> format). We need these docs updated and many people at the sprint were
> eager to work on them, so they are now open. Please feel free to get
> them up to speed so that new users have a good reference.
> - Paschal and Barry Madore did work on improving the docs on adding
> screenshots.
> - Stella Power worked on JS code standards and Alan Burke worked on
> CSS code standards.
> - Moshe did a little Diff module mojo and created a patch for the
> Drupal.org module to add a direct link to the latest diff on the
> recent updates page (http://drupal.org/handbook/updates). That will
> appear on the site once Killes gets a chance to deploy the updates.
> - The Usability team outlined a new Usability section for the handbook
> and Niels started to write it up.
> - We added a bunch of people to the docs team, so welcome to all the
> new team members.
> - There was a ton of activity in the IRC channel that was hard for me
> to keep up with since there was so much snatching me away at the
> sprint, so kudos to the folks who were in the channel, especially the
> ones not in Szeged but still taking part in the srpint.
> - Lots and lots and lots and lots of people were cleaning up the issue
> queue, rolling in comments, reviewing sections of the handbook, eating
> chocolate and generally having a great time.
>
> Whew, that's about as much as I can spit out right now.
>
> Other stuff going on in docs that isn't sprint-related per se:
> - I've created a read-only g.d.o group at http://groups.drupal.org/documentation-team
>  where we can post updates on work and announcements. This allows
> people who are not on the mailing list to be apprised of things and
> gives a central location for Doc team info with an RSS feed. It will
> mainly be used to summarize and point to mailing list threads,
> important issues in the queue and to d.o forum/front page posts. We
> will also post all scheduled meetings here so you can keep track of
> those too and add them to your calendar. Since it is read-only, there
> are no group subscriptions available and currently myself and sepeck
> have rights to add new posts.
> - Just want to remind folks (and point new members) to the  ongoing
> discussion about opening editing to all auth users (http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/documentation/2008-August/006191.html
> ). Please provide your feedback *in that thread* by Sept. 8.
> - The Getting involved handbook issues (http://drupal.org/project/issues?projects=18753&text=Contrib%20Redesign:)still
>  need work so we can do the reorg. Thanks to everyone that has been
> chipping away at that.
>
> I've got a bunch more stuff to sput about but this post is already
> hella long so I'll wrap up there. Really, HUGE thanks to everyone. I
> am damned excited about the docs team right now and I feel like we are
> kicking butt.
>
> Keep rockin' the docs!
> Addi (add1sun)
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