Rupert Horstkötter wrote:
With the Mentoring Session one week over, I see 6 Articles "checked", 21 Articles "under review" and 5 Articles "not transferred". While this is certainly appreciated, I assume that we won't manage to go through http://en.opensuse.org/Transition_List in a reasonable timeframe if we don't accelerate this effort significantly.
i can't speak for any others...but, the 'holidays' were joyful (yipee) and didn't offer the reams of 'free time' i had planned to donate to the open source/openSUSE cause...and, when i tried to dive in, i found a few problems/challenges which severely dampened my willingness to plunge ahead at Mach 2: 1. a HUGE list http://en.opensuse.org/Transition_List of work--daunting, over powering and seemingly endless...chilling...a mountain of work...i got 'tired' just trying to find something i *wanted* to spend time with... and then i found an article i was willing to _begin_ with and turned to the checklist http://en.opensuse.org/Transition_Guidelines of things to do for each article--and *immediately* find instructions i don't know how to follow, like: 2. in Step 1 > Format check > "Change capitalization of title page by moving the article to the new name." ok, that is simple enough instructions (for a Wiki Guru...which i'm not,) so i have zero idea how to "move" the article to the new name...and, that means i can't pick anything with a title that needs changing. (which is ok, 'cause now _my_ list is shorter and more manageable because any article with more than a one word title is off limits for me---waaaaaaaaaaa, what if all the ones i wanna work on have two or more words in the title?) 3. same Step 1 > Format check > "Follows the openSUSE:Article Template" > "knowledge bar" and immediately i need to know a. how i am supposed to know (or learn) if the article has been tested against which (if any) of the current releases?? b. i've never actually run any 11.x more than a few minutes, so maybe i'm not qualified to help at all--is this a task for bleeding edgers only? c. am i to wander around in the wiki until i've filled in the list of 'recommended articles'? d. if i wander around and find an article to be mentioned, how do i decide if it is a "recomended article" or a "related article" e. i wonder if the article i'm reviewing is going to have to be reviewed EVERY eight months, *forever*?? and, who is gonna do that? (obviously it will have to be an 'early adopter' huh?) 4. same Step 1 > Format check > "Follows the openSUSE:Article Template" > Communication > Team members, and i wonder a. if each article needs a list of "team members"? b. and what team? is each page supposed to have a 'team' of originators/contributors/editors? (that wasn't mentioned in the mentoring session i attended..) c. so, where do i find the list of 'team members'? or, do we expect it to grow, naturally? if i'm on that list will i still be there when i have "moved on" in, say 50 years? d. if there is to be a team then what about this: "This article is under review! The contents are currently being evaluated and edited by [[User:{{{1}}}]]. Others should not make any changes." http://en.opensuse.org/Template:InReview which is not a very 'team building' pronouncement, framed in red. e. will each page have a 'team leader' or will each page have their own mini-anarchy? 5. same Step 1 > Format check > "Follows the openSUSE:Article Template" > Mailing list, and i wonder a. if each article requires a mailing list be associated with it? do some articles need two mailing lists? three? b. what about forums--if we list related mailing lists shouldn't we also name the related forums? c. how do i decide which mailing list/forum should be on any particular article? see? imHo, i can do a half okay job of turning non-native speaker/writer's or 'hacker' prose into nearly clearly usable, not overly hacker/technical english...but, to do ALL that is expected for any one article i have a LONG way to go to be helpful with: -moving wiki pages -wiki mark up language (sure i can learn it, eventually) [i 'know' basic html, is there a converter? like can i feed in a finished html page with say <b>this</b><br>and <i>that</i><br> and out pops wiki with '''this''' and ''that'' which i can copy paste into a wiki editing box?] -develop the 'knowledge' of version specifics and recommended/related articles -associating mail lists -following the fully ripe/mature instructions/guidelines/checklists needed to implement the ideas/ideals decided before i stumbled in.. vr, DenverD -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help@opensuse.org