[Opensim-dev] Tracking Documentation in Mantis

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it was self-regulated cause i was called on duty :/

Sm


On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Sean Dague <sdague at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
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> sdague at gmail.com
> http://dague.net
>
>
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