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- <todo title="Documentation To Do List">
-
- <devs>
- <!-- in strict alphabetical order -->
- <person name="David Crossley" email="crossley@apache.org" id="DC"/>
- <person name="Diana Shannon" email="shannon@apache.org" id="DS"/>
- <person name="Volunteer needed" email="cocoon-dev@apache.org" id="open"/>
- </devs>
-
- <actions priority="high">
-
- <action context="docs" assigned-to="open">
- Decide priorities for initial documentation project efforts.
- </action>
-
- <action context="docs" assigned-to="open">
- Decide how draft documentation will be managed in CVS.
- Probably under the main xdocs to start with.
- </action>
-
- <action context="docs" assigned-to="open">
- Decide how to simplify proposed content submission and review process.
- </action>
-
- <action context="docs" assigned-to="open">
- Explore options for building "depends" hooks into
- documentation to couple document content more tightly to code evolution.
- In other words, create internal document flags to help identify content
- to update when a particular component/option changes.
- </action>
-
- <action context="docs" assigned-to="open">
- Clarify any copyright issues related to contributed documentation.
- </action>
-
- <action context="docs" assigned-to="open">
- Javadocs need simple package.html for description of each class.
- See email discussion cocoon-dev
- <link href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=102056702426129">Javadocs: need basic package information</link>
- </action>
-
- <action context="docs" assigned-to="open">
- Develop how-to author Tutorial and Recipe documents.
- </action>
-
- <action context="docs" assigned-to="open">
- Develop how-to author a case studies/success story document.
- </action>
-
- <action context="docs" assigned-to="open">
- Develop how-to author business case document.
- </action>
-
- <action context="docs" assigned-to="DS">
- Develop tips on writing effectively document for contributors.
- </action>
-
- <action context="docs" assigned-to="DS">
- Develop basic editing conventions for project.
- </action>
-
- <action context="docs" assigned-to="open">
- Develop status page of in-process documents and topics.
- </action>
-
- <action context="docs" assigned-to="open">
- Review all existing documentation. Update
- <link href="doc.html">Documentation Revisions</link> as appropriate.
- </action>
-
- <action context="docs" assigned-to="open">
- Review the titles of all existing documents. At one stage they were
- deliberately kept short because of show-off banner images. Now there is no
- need and titles can be properly descriptive. Also set guidelines for new
- document titles. See cocoon-dev discussion
- <link href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=101982197707050"> Re: tracks/titles</link>.
- </action>
-
- <action context="docs" assigned-to="open">
- Harvest FAQ content from user list. Expand FAQ content. Revise faq-v10.dtd.
- </action>
-
- <action context="docs" assigned-to="open">
- Develop and post survey to user list to assess documentation needs.
- </action>
-
- <action context="docs" assigned-to="open">
- Develop comprehensive how-to "wish list" cover all critical development issues.
- </action>
-
- <action context="docs" assigned-to="open">
- Provide technical review of draft tutorial: "Developing Your Own Generator."
- </action>
-
- <action context="docs" assigned-to="open">
- Expand documentation infrastructure (XSLT, indexing, etc.) to provide efficient user
- access to multiple FAQs, How-Tos, Snippets, Tutorials, etc.
- </action>
-
- <action context="docs" assigned-to="open">
- Revise web site navigation/hierarchy to make all documentation more accessible.
- </action>
-
- </actions>
-
- <actions priority="medium">
-
- <action context="code" assigned-to="open">
- Build upon Ken's excellent Patch Queue notifier to send a reminder/prompt
- to relevant mail list about outstanding DOC patches in Bugzilla.
- </action>
-
- <action context="code" assigned-to="open">
- Explore CMS-related options with Forrest project.
- </action>
-
- <action context="docs" assigned-to="open">
- Recruit users for authoring and QA testing.
- </action>
-
- <action context="docs" assigned-to="open">
- Explore other QA options, such as off-site wikis and contentEnabled
- browser capabilities.
- </action>
-
- <action context="docs" assigned-to="open">
- Decide how Cocoon project web site can be updated more frequently.
- </action>
-
- <action context="docs" assigned-to="open">
- Edit content of existing documents, based on
- <link href="doc.html">Documentation Revisions</link>.
- </action>
-
- <action context="docs" assigned-to="open">
- Restructure existing documents, if necessary, based on
- <link href="doc.html">Documentation Revisions</link>.
- </action>
-
- <action context="docs" assigned-to="open">
- Develop more informative introductory pages for refactored samples.
- </action>
-
- <action context="docs" assigned-to="open">
- Figure out how to consistently link between the Samples and the relevant
- documentation and vice versa. Then create more links.
- </action>
-
- <action context="docs" assigned-to="open">
- Develop learner's roadmaps.
- </action>
-
- <action context="docs" assigned-to="open">
- Develop an expanded version of <link href="doc.html">Documentation Revisions</link>
- to facilitate contributor and coordination efforts.
- </action>
-
- <action context="docs" assigned-to="open">
- Review all existing scratchpad documentation. Update
- <link href="doc.html">Documentation Revisions</link> as appropriate.
- </action>
-
- <action context="docs" assigned-to="open">
- Decide what to do about the cTwIG (Cocoon Two Idiots Guide). After the
- re-organisation of the menus, it is no longer linked in.
- Perhaps some of it should move into the new How-to docs.
- There is also an old patch waiting in Bugzilla ...
- <link href="http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6435">Bug 6435</link>
- which contains neglected contributions.
- </action>
-
- </actions>
-
- </todo>
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