[Opensim-dev] Core Developers... I need a little help...

Fri May 22 14:25:49 UTC 2009

Devs,

> so I will be happy to assist you with what I know

Great, thank-you!

If you can just head over to any one of those pages that I've listed, and
begin a little bit of "updating" and "WIKI" work, that would be greatly
appreciated.

I've been creating some "layouts" and "templates" for missing/proposal pages
as well.  Also I've been adding any pages that need work to the "Todo" tag.
 So if you simply search by category, and look at the "Todo" list/tag,
you'll see some of the more recent pages that need updating/work.

I'm slowly combing through the whole WIKI (page by page) and properly
tagging/updating any pages that need navigation or content tags (and linking
any common topic pages).  For now, I just really need a bit of help with
some of the content pages.  There is simply a lot of stuff that I just don't
know, and need a couple of the developers (who are familiar with those core
areas/topics) to just look the pages over, and update any content that they
are familiar with.

           Thank-you,

              Mark

P.S.  I believe after the complete "WIKI Overhaul" is finished (late summer,
early fall) that it should be much easier to maintain the WIKI (and for new
users to navigate).  Good documentation and good WIKI support pages really
help out the new users in the community (and also help keep the support
requests down to a minimal).  Once the overhaul is complete, and all the
pages are fully updated, then I'll work with several of the translators, and
try to get all the pages translated into several common languages (and add
several small language/nation flags to the front main page, for common
languages such as French, English, Spanish, German, Italian, etc.)  Then
I'll update the navigation for each of those language menu's, but that is
going to be "well beyond" the two week number that I projected earlier.
 Hopefully by mid to late summer all the WIKI content should be "overhauled"
and fairly up to date, and we'll be ready for mass-translation.  If anyone
is multi-lingual, please contact me off-list, so that I can give you a list
of pages that are ready for translation.  I will also setup a new tag,
called "translate" so that any pages that are tagged with the "translate"
tag, are up to date, and ready to be translated.  I'm working on creating a
few spreadsheets, to help keep things organized, but please ignore the mess
as we get the WIKI updated.

Thank-you.

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Arthur Valadares <
arthursv at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Hey Mark, did anyone contact you about this? It's some great work you're
> doing for the community and for the developers, and we have been
> fighting for more documentation on the wiki, so I will be happy to
> assist you with what I know (not much) and bug other core developers to
> do so as well.
>
> Thanks,
>
> On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 13:28 -0500, Mark Malewski wrote:
> > Dev-Group,
> >
> >
> > Ok, I've been working (as much as I possibly can) on creating pages,
> > improving navigation links, and improving the current WIKI
> > documentation, but there are quite a few pages that still need
> > updating (and I'm clueless as to what information should go on a few
> > of these pages).  I've added some pages, and some pages are a bit out
> > of date (and need updated content), so I really need some help from
> > the core developers on updating each of these following pages:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Sim_Throttles   -  What is this page?
> >  What is the name "Sim_Throttles", and where did it come from?  Is
> > there an actual event or function called "Sim_Throttles" or
> > "OpenSim_Throttles"?  This page needs some updating from one of the
> > core developers familiar with this, also should the name be changed
> > from "Sim_Throttles" to "OpenSim_Throttles"?
> >
> >
> > Also the following GridServer pages need work:
> > http://opensimulator.org/wiki/GridServer
> >
> > http://opensimulator.org/wiki/GridServer/ClientDocs          -
> >  GridServer Client Documentation Page
> > http://opensimulator.org/wiki/GridServer/DeveloperDocs    -
> >  GridServer Developer Documentation Page
> >
> >
> > Also where can I find out the current LSL and OSSL "Types Status" and
> > "Events Status"?  Where does this information come from?  Mantis?
> > I'm trying to figure out how to update those pages, but I'm just not
> > sure where the "Type Status" and "Event Status"
> > information/numbers/statistics/completion stats comes from.  Please
> > help me find this information, and update the pages accordingly.
> >
> >
> > I've updated the navigation on these pages, but please review the
> > content on all of these pages to see if the content needs to be
> > updated as well.  I believe all the OpenSim "Current Status" pages
> > need to be reviewed and updated accordingly as well:
> > http://opensimulator.org/wiki/LSL_Status                  - LSL Status
> > Page
> > http://opensimulator.org/wiki/LSL_Status/Types        - LSL Types
> > Status Page
> > http://opensimulator.org/wiki/LSL_Status/Events       - LSL Events
> > Status Page
> > http://opensimulator.org/wiki/LSL_Status/Types        - LSL Status
> > Page
> > http://opensimulator.org/wiki/OSSL_Status                  - OSSL
> > Status Page
> > http://opensimulator.org/wiki/OSSL_Status/Types        - OSSL Types
> > Status Page
> > http://opensimulator.org/wiki/OSSL_Status/Events       - OSSL Events
> > Status Page
> > http://opensimulator.org/wiki/OSSL_Status/Types        - OSSL Status
> > Page
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Please give me some feedback, and/or update the content on the WIKI
> > pages listed above (or if you are not comfortable with updating the
> > WIKI, please just send me the correct text that should be posted on
> > the WIKI page in an E-mail off-list, and I'll copy and paste the text
> > to the WIKI page, and update any necessary formatting, grammatical
> > corrections, etc).  I just need some updated content for these WIKI
> > pages.  Thank-you!
> >
> >
> >                      Mark
> >
> >
> > P.S.  I'm still currently working on the OSSL pages, so please give me
> > another hour or two to finish up all the OSSL template pages before
> > adding any content or updating the OSSL pages.  Thanks!
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> --
> Arthur Valadares <arthursv at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
>
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