[documentation] June roadmap IRC meeting summary and log

[Addison Berry]

> add1sun has posted a Discussion at http://groups.drupal.org/node/23395
>
> June roadmap IRC meeting summary and log
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> This is a short summary of the IRC meeting we had on Tuesday, June  
> 16 to discuss the new roadmap that was posted last week, http://drupal.org/node/488070 
> . Lots of folks showed up and we had a god chat. Unfortunately we  
> had to cut it off after an hour, but more meetings will be coming.  
> You can get the full deal by reading the IRC transcript: http://pastebin.com/f4ee1b70f

> The main things that were discussed were around the question of what  
> this "content architecture" stuff is about. I'll reprint my best  
> effort response here (though Becca would be able to explain better  
> probably) and also note that the concern that we follow industry  
> standards as a guideline so that we aren't striking off on our own.

> The superquick skinny on the architecture is that we need to  
> restructure how our content is presented to make it findable and  
> easier to use. This means not just the navigation but also  
> categories/tagging and looking at the structure of each page as well  
> as the overall structure. Becca is leading this up and is starting  
> to gather data about our content, users and community. We'll be  
> asking for help on this in the next few weeks. As we sift through  
> all of this stuff, Becca will come up with an "ideal" architecture  
> to start from. We will then continue poking and prodding, doing  
> cardsorts and testing until we feel we have a good arch to implement.

> I also provided some clarification about the appendices that were  
> attached to the roadmap draft. Appendices A and B are a brain dump  
> of tasks that may be needed to accomplish our goals. At the Toronto  
> sprint we had time to brainstorm tasks but not fill out any details  
> or expand on them. Anyone that would like to dive into one of the  
> goals can just use the task table outlines as a place to start in  
> terms of figuring out what they need to consider and do. The  
> appendix C mindmap is an easier to digest overview of A and B.

> I talked a bit about the Writing Open Source conf that I attended  
> and encouraged anyone interested to join the "wosdocs" community at http://writingopensource.com 
> . We then also moved to a very brief conversation about some  
> toolsets like docbook and DITA, though it was noted that we aren't  
> at a place to get into those details until the architecture is done.

> We then ended up discussing the fact that the roadmap has two  
> priority goals right now (content architecture and recognition/ 
> rewards for contributors) but that if folks want to jump in on other  
> tasks that don't depend on those two, they can get started. We will  
> use the Community Inititives section to creating organizing pages,  
> but create issues for the actual tasks/work that needs to happen.  
> Feel free to email the mailing list to find others interested in  
> working on similar goals.

> We wrapped up talking about a number of topics like single-sourcing  
> docs and Becca asked if anyone had any examples of good  
> documentation for something with a similar goal as Drupal.

> Whew, OK, it was a lot of talking, which was awesome! If you haven't  
> taken the "thank you" survey on http://docs.drupaltest.org, please  
> do. I'd like to have at least two meetings in July: one for a status  
> report on the roadmap and another to begin our plan for Drupal 7  
> documentation. I'm on the road right now, but I'll send Doodles out  
> for those meetings in the next week or so.

- Addi
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