I agree and would like to propose a roadmap that people can follow (hands off) and they can continue ongoing work. emphasizing that if they want to contribute, they need to self-taught and self-do without waiting for approval. We just dont have enough resources for a delegating and approving changes.
I would want to also understand the better work that we can do in promoting the documentation project to the rest of the community. Gamification is a way, or just using the blog and social network to recruit technical writters. I also want to know if there is any other idea that can help this project get off the ground. And finally build a report for the next apache cycle on what has been achieved on this project. On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Keith N. McKenna < keith.mcke...@comcast.net> wrote: > Greetings All; > > Just checked the archives and it is just shy of 2.5 years since this > list was started and what do we have to show for it? Basically nothing. > There are pieces and sections of guides in various stages of completion, > but nothing anywhere near ready for final publication. > > There has been some work done on various parts of the Guide, but no real > discussion here. We have a tracking document that is supposed to be used > so all members of the team know where things are and what is needed but > it rarely gets used. All of this has to beg the question where are we > with documentation; do we really want to have the documentation done "in > house"; and if we do is the process we started 2+ years ago still the > correct way to go? > > I for one firmly believe that not having up to date user documentation > reflects poorly on the project as a whole. It is time for us to take a > hard look at what we want to do and come together and try to move > forward either with what we have or by starting over and re-defining > what we want and the process to get there. Either that our we have to > decide that we are just not in a position to this piece and fold. I hope > that it is not the later. > > Respectfully > Keith N. McKenna > > > > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor 882C 4389 3C27 E8DF 41B9 5C4C 1DB7 9D1C 7F4C 2614
