| jbicha | GunnarHj: congrats! is that your first GNOME commit? | 15:11 |
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| GunnarHj | jbicha: Thanks. :) Well, while I have submitted a few patches to GNOME before, this was the first one which was properly formatted and thus could make it directly to git. | 15:13 |
| GunnarHj | jbicha: Is seb128 not around? Asking because of bug #1689321. | 15:15 |
| jbicha | yeah, he might be out | 15:17 |
| jbicha | GunnarHj: are you aware that there is long-standing policy that GNOME has no docs string freeze? | 15:18 |
| GunnarHj | jbicha: I saw that you mentioned it somewhere; didn't know before. That makes the point with that bug stronger, doesn't it? | 15:19 |
| jbicha | I don't know | 15:22 |
| jbicha | my point instead was I plan to ask gnome-doc-list to change that policy | 15:23 |
| GunnarHj | jbicha: I see. ;) But does how would that affect Ubuntu? | 15:27 |
| GunnarHj | s/does// | 15:27 |
| jbicha | https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-user-docs/log | 15:27 |
| GunnarHj | Yeah, saw it. | 15:28 |
| jbicha | gnome-user-docs 3.24.0 was released April 11, the Archive Admins let me upload it, but that was partly based on it only being used for Ubuntu GNOME | 15:28 |
| jbicha | if you look at the timestamps, there was a translation-breaking commit less than 2 hours before the release | 15:29 |
| GunnarHj | jbicha: I see. Indeed, introducing doc string freeze in order to give the translators a chance is a good idea. | 15:30 |
| jbicha | the other reason the Archive Admins let it in is because well, I doubt 3.22 was that much better :| | 15:31 |
| jbicha | so if we want docs 3.26 in 17.10, I think we should come up with a proposed doc string freeze & tarball release schedule | 15:32 |
| GunnarHj | jbicha: I suppose we only want that if most of the application packages will be 3.26 in 17.10. | 15:34 |
| ableto | Does anyone know who I might need to speak with about contributing to documentation? Thanks | 16:41 |
| pleia2 | ableto: there's no one person in particular, so you're welcome to just ask questions here, or on the mailing list | 17:15 |
| ableto | oh ok, I was just curious how much experience a person would need in order to contribute. I have been in IT for 15 years, B.S in MIS, a lot of web dev experience; I'm considering a career in technical writing but I have basically no experience | 17:20 |
| pleia2 | we have had contributors of all levels really, even just reviewing the documentation and submitting bug reports with changes needed is a huge help since it's difficult for the team to keep up with every change from release to release | 17:21 |
| pleia2 | the wiki page has links to our various bits of documentation https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam | 17:21 |
| pleia2 | are you more interested in server docs or desktop? | 17:21 |
| pleia2 | either way, this is a good place to start: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/SystemDocumentation | 17:22 |
| ableto | I don't have a preference, I'm mostly wanting to learn | 17:22 |
| pleia2 | I suggest doing some exploring in the wiki then to see what you'd be more interested in, they use different documentation formats so the workflows are slightly different but I think we have both paths pretty well documented | 17:23 |
| pleia2 | and feel free to ask questions along the way :) | 17:23 |
| ableto | Thank you pleia2, I appreciate the help | 17:23 |
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