[TYPO3] Documentation nightmare

[Daniel Brüßler]

Hello Dmitry,

The big manuals like this are a problem when not done by teamwork. When 
two or three people can work on such a big one it's much easier. That's 
the task of the wiki.

Then some people are needed to review it, people like you who know every 
bit and byte by name ;-)
For example this is a review-candidate in the moment:
http://wiki.typo3.org/Category:Topic/needs_a_review

So it's divided in many parts, so a heavy burden is carried by many people.

Cheers!
Daniel


> Hi!
> 
> Peter Kindström wrote:
>>> There was. I do not remember who was it leader but no one from key 
>>> core people answered to his questions and he quit in protest. He was 
>>> really good in doc writing. I think doc team ceased to exist after 
>>> that. This was before I joined core team but I followed the story in 
>>> typo3.teams.docunmentation list.
>>
>> Maybe that was me...? I wasn't the official leader, but the last(?) 
>> one trying to get things done, before Daniel showed up.
> 
> Yes, I think so :) I remember you was referred as de-facto leader of the 
> group :) And everyone was sorry that you quit but no one could really help.
> 
>> We started structuring the wiki but never got acess to the "real" 
>> documentation or the web pages. So basically the only thing we could 
>> do was producing more documents - not improving or merging with 
>> exisisting ones.
>>
>> That was/is a problem I think, because if you browse around at the 
>> wiki and web pages you see that there IS much documentation about most 
>> things in Typo3. But it can be hard to find and it could be hard to 
>> know what is right / up-to-date since different documents could 
>> contain NEARLY the same information. Just look here to see what I mean 
>> (the Introduction header):
>>   http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/Getting_started
>>
>> I quit my documentation effort because I/we were not able to take ALL 
>> documentation into consideration AND we where not "authorazied" to do 
>> any changes except on the wiki. Under those conditions I belive there 
>> can't be any improvements on Typo3 documentation... even if we have a 
>> great docTeam/docTeamLeader.  :-(
>>
>> All my toughts about T3doc is still availiable (and free to use) at:  
>> http://www.infolagret.se/index.php?id=95
>> Look in the Documentation menu, the other pages are written in swedish 
>> ;-)
> 
> Thanks for the story, Peter! I am really sad that it happened, I feel we 
> lost a lot when you decided to quit. But I understand your feelings. I 
> hope situation is changing now. There is typo3.org team and most people 
> understand the necessity of good docs. So you may come back some time in 
> the future :) It would be really great :)
> 
> I would love to hear from you or doc team how a developer (me to be 
> exact) can help to rewrite such document as FTB? How this work can be 
> organized/divided? I cannot imagine it :( I am quite sure I can get hold 
> of FTB ownership from Kasper, so we really can update it.
> 
> May be I should sucscribe to doc team list again ;)
>