On 14/03/2019 14:54, Amey Abhyankar wrote:
Hello,
On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 at 08:55, Lana Brindley <lbrindley@suse.de> wrote:
On 14/03/2019 12:54, Mike McCallister wrote:
On 3/13/2019 9:35 PM, Lana Brindley wrote:
On 14/03/2019 10:39, Simon Lees wrote:
Hi
On 14/03/2019 10:05, Lana Brindley wrote:
OK, I'll be that guy ;)
I can see that the OpenSUSE docs need some love and care (and that even the docs mailing list got shut down a little while ago :\ ). I've had some experience with open source docs communities in the past. What needs to be done?
Lana
Most of openSUSE's current documentation is generated along side SUSE's so talking to SUSE's documentation team is probably the best starting point. As a result of this if you look at https://doc.opensuse.org/ it tends to cover things that are in SLE very well but doesn't tend to cover areas outside that, Yeah, the problem I see is that there is no community-based team for these docs, the community is just relying on a re-badging of the corporate docs.
for example there's a bunch of low hanging fruit in things like the Gnome User Guide could probably be extended to other desktops like KDE and there are probably a bunch of other features / things that we ship in openSUSE that aren't in SLE that could equally make there way into openSUSE's version of the documentation. A content audit seems like a good place to start.
Since there's no mailing list or IRC any more, it's a little hard to know how to go about building up a community around docs. Do you think this is the best list to try and kick that off, or is there a more appropriate place?
Lana Lana (and others),
I don't have a ton of spare time, but I'd be willing to be on a docs team. A perfect way for this Member Emeritus to get back in the game. 8-) I also have a lot of tech writers in my Twitter feed, and can spread the word that way.
Hooray! I also know a lot of Twittering tech writers, so once we have a good place to gather them, I'll put a call out. I know it's not open, but what about Slack Just to give some pointers,
https://opensuse-asia.slack.com is active & widely used by openSUSE contributors from Asia. :-)
Thanks! Looks like you need an opensuse.org email address to join, though (not sure if Australia counts as "Asia" in this instance, either!) :( Although it seems as though the community isn't opposed to Slack, so perhaps that's a reasonable option for us. Lana
Regards, Amey.
or something? That's where the Write the Docs people are.
Lana
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