[15:11] <jbicha> GunnarHj: congrats! is that your first GNOME commit?
[15:13] <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.
[15:15] <GunnarHj> jbicha: Is seb128 not around? Asking because of bug #1689321.
[15:17] <jbicha> yeah, he might be out
[15:18] <jbicha> GunnarHj: are you aware that there is long-standing policy that GNOME has no docs string freeze?
[15:19] <GunnarHj> jbicha: I saw that you mentioned it somewhere; didn't know before. That makes the point with that bug stronger, doesn't it?
[15:22] <jbicha> I don't know
[15:23] <jbicha> my point instead was I plan to ask gnome-doc-list to change that policy
[15:27] <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
[15:28] <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
[15:29] <jbicha> if you look at the timestamps, there was a translation-breaking commit less than 2 hours before the release
[15:30] <GunnarHj> jbicha: I see. Indeed, introducing doc string freeze in order to give the translators a chance is a good idea.
[15:31] <jbicha> the other reason the Archive Admins let it in is because well, I doubt 3.22 was that much better :|
[15:32] <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
[15:34] <GunnarHj> jbicha: I suppose we only want that if most of the application packages will be 3.26 in 17.10.
[16:41] <ableto> Does anyone know who I might need to speak with about contributing to documentation? Thanks
[17:15] <pleia2> ableto: there's no one person in particular, so you're welcome to just ask questions here, or on the mailing list
[17:20] <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
[17:21] <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?
[17:22] <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
[17:23] <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