Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Helping Plone.org Docs

I sent out a message recently on the Plone-Docs mailing list but I'm going to add it here to my blog. If you've been following any of the discussions on the doc list over the past few months, you know we are trying to make a lot of changes. We have the first group of deadlines coming up at the end of this year and we need any and all help we can get. We don't care if you're an old skool Plonista or a newbie- we want your help! So while others are sprinting to upgrade plone.org to Plone 3, the doc team will be picking up momentum in order to meet our deadlines head on.
This is a critical juncture for the doc section and it will be hard for us to move forward with other plans until these tasks are done. If you use plone docs at all, want to use plone docs at all, and want to see them get better, please consider chipping in. Veda had the idea of dividing up the tasks into small chunks which I think is a fabulous idea. We'll do just that. This way even if you only can spare an hour, we will have a task for you!
Contact me on the plone docs list, email me directly, twitter me, or find me in #plone or #plone-docs on IRC. Use your resources to spread the word. Let's rally and get this done!!


Below, you'll find the text from my recent post:
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Hey Doc team-
We have some end of year deadlines that we are in danger of missing.
If you have time over the holidays/end of the year/start of new year,
please let me know!
We need help with the following tasks:
- Section Assessments
- Configuration and Set Up (almost done?)
- Developing for Plone (almost done?)
- Managing Content (half done?)
- Navigation
- Installation
- Updating and Moving
- Users, Authentication, and Permissions
- i18n & l10n
- Documentation Guidelines for official and new knowledge base docs
- Process for starting new doc team members


If you can spare any time at all, email me and I will get you
instructions and every thing you need to work on these tasks. The
section assessments are top priority for us. We can't divide our
current doc section into formal and less formal sets until the
assessments are done. Our editors need your help to get these done.
Even if you can only spare an hour, it would help us out tremendously.
It will also be good karma and your fellow doc team members will love
and adore you for chipping in at the last minute.

So please please please chip in and help us make the final push
towards our deadlines!!