[TYPO3-doc] Reshaping the Documentation Team

[Ron Liskey]

I'm interested in helping to improve the documentation. Am a native 
English speaker, fluent in German, familiar with MediaWiki.

-ron

On 9/23/2011 3:25 AM, François Suter wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Following the tragic death of Daniel Brüßler we need to reorganize the 
> Documentation Team and find new forces. I've made the round of the 
> issue trackers of the various projects and sub-projects that the Doc 
> Team cares for. I have also collected what was still just in my head 
> about upcoming tasks.
>
> If you feel like helping, this is your time to shine.
>
> The list is below, but the *most* important point is the TYPO3 wiki. 
> This was really Daniel's area and that's where we need skills the most 
> badly. Ideally we would need a small team of people that would take 
> care of maintaining the wiki, making continuous improvements, 
> upgrading the source software and generally caring for bugs that may 
> happen. To have an idea of the open issues, please refer to the 
> dedicated bug tracker [1].
>
> The other big projects are the ongoing maintenance and improvement of 
> the official documentation and the migration to reST.
>
> Here are some of the priorities:
>
> - official documentation:
> * finish updating Getting Started, TCA reference and Core APIs
> * start/continue updating for 4.6
> * start the rewrite of important outdated manuals, such as Modern 
> Template Building
>
> - reST migration:
> * transform sample DocBook manual to sample reST manual
> * work on the rendering process
> * work on converting the existing manuals
>
> These are just a few. Again if you feel like helping, don't hesitate 
> to join. Announce yourself here in this list and we'll organize the work.
>
> As an aside, there's a new member status now on Forge, "Honorary 
> Member" and I have assigned it to Daniel's user (the change is not 
> effective in every sub-project yet). I felt it was the best we could 
> do to reorganize things but keep his memory.
>
> Cheers
>

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Ron Liskey
www.ronliskey.com