[Opensim-dev] Tracking Documentation in Mantis

[Sean Dague]

Mo Hax wrote:
> As one who recently has really been using the Wiki docs a lot lately for
> better or worse:
> 
>    - I think Mantis is a good way to prioritize and assign technical
>    correction to documents where casual wiki contributions will not meet the
>    need. In general, however, I agree that having a ToDo collection of tagged
>    pages better fits the main targeted wiki contributor should be expected to
>    know. To me that targeted contributor is the person setting up, configuring,
>    and administering an OpenSim, in any mode, rather than the very capable,
>    very busy volunteers that develop them. Anecdotally, if we asked our
>    documentation team to even open our bug tracking system they would run
>    screaming.
> 
> 
>    - I was happy to learn about tagging from Sean directly, I would not have
>    known otherwise and I wonder how many other potential wiki contributors
>    know--especially the ones who are in a position to catch inconsistencies
>    such as those setting it up for the first time. Seems perhaps we need
>    something on the main page that brings their attention to that and calms
>    their fears of reprisal for the risk of incorrectly calling out bad sections
>    of the wiki or at least sections they did not understand. My skin is pretty
>    thick, but other newcomers--especially the less technical ones, might not
>    have their Barkskin on.
> 
> Where was I? Oh yeah, adding an idiot note to myself that 'standalone' means
> 'standalone'. ;)

Yeh, the refocus on the wiki by myself and some others really just
started a week ago.  We kicked off wiki hours for thursdays:
http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Office_hours

Though I was buried this week and couldn't make it.  Sacha was gracious
enough to lead in my absence.  I encourage people that are interested
join us there next week.

	-Sean

-- 
Sean Dague / Neas Bade
sdague at gmail.com
http://dague.net


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