[15:11] GunnarHj: congrats! is that your first GNOME commit? [15:13] 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] jbicha: Is seb128 not around? Asking because of bug #1689321. [15:17] yeah, he might be out [15:18] GunnarHj: are you aware that there is long-standing policy that GNOME has no docs string freeze? [15:19] 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] I don't know [15:23] my point instead was I plan to ask gnome-doc-list to change that policy [15:27] jbicha: I see. ;) But does how would that affect Ubuntu? [15:27] s/does// [15:27] https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-user-docs/log [15:28] Yeah, saw it. [15:28] 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] if you look at the timestamps, there was a translation-breaking commit less than 2 hours before the release [15:30] jbicha: I see. Indeed, introducing doc string freeze in order to give the translators a chance is a good idea. [15:31] the other reason the Archive Admins let it in is because well, I doubt 3.22 was that much better :| [15:32] 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] jbicha: I suppose we only want that if most of the application packages will be 3.26 in 17.10. [16:41] Does anyone know who I might need to speak with about contributing to documentation? Thanks [17:15] ableto: there's no one person in particular, so you're welcome to just ask questions here, or on the mailing list [17:20] 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] 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] the wiki page has links to our various bits of documentation https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam [17:21] are you more interested in server docs or desktop? [17:22] either way, this is a good place to start: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/SystemDocumentation [17:22] I don't have a preference, I'm mostly wanting to learn [17:23] 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] and feel free to ask questions along the way :) [17:23] Thank you pleia2, I appreciate the help