Hey guys,
on Thursday, Erik sent an email to the Core Developers which said that he won't have the time to work on the project, because of personal reasons and that his job requires him to travel a lot in the near future.
He was the Wiki Coordinator [1] and we have currently been working on organizing the people who work on the documentation in a better way. The goal was to raise everybody's awareness about what there is to do, so that we work together as best as possible.
As more and more volunteers have shown up in the last weeks and month, (which I am very happy about, by the way) I think that it is becoming more and more important that the documentation team will finally become a real "team", which more than just one person.
As long as we don't have a coordinator, I wouldn't like seeing things going down, so that I am going to take the role for a little while, until we found solutions for the problems we need to sort out. This is not intended to go on for more than one or two weeks.
What are those problems?
* We started working on a so called "workflow" [2], which should help to keep us all on the "same page" - almost literally.
* We are planning to build translation teams, so that the documentation team and the group of translations are completely independent. This only makes sense, because they always work independently and status of the translations also varies a lot.
I am still undecided on how we should handle this, so please feel free to send me ideas or opinions on this list.
* We have got a whole bunch of things to do at the moment. A lot of new functionality has been added to the distribution and for parts of that there is no documentation at all.
So, there is a lot of chaos going on here right now. Now you know the reasons and I would be happy if we could solve this all together very soon.
-Michael
[1] http://wiki.ipfire.org/projects/docs/start [2] http://wiki.ipfire.org/projects/docs/workflow
Hi Michael
I've not been as involved with the project as I'd like in terms of creating documentation or creating content for my YouTube channel based on IPFire because I've been super busy with work and family stuff.
It doesn't look like this will change much in the near future either. But I'd still like to help in any way I can. The only problem I have is a lack of knowledge of certain elements within IPFire.
Hopefully when I transition into my old job I should have some time to spare but we'll see how things go.
Aaron On 10 Aug 2013 13:43, "Michael Tremer" michael.tremer@ipfire.org wrote:
Hey guys,
on Thursday, Erik sent an email to the Core Developers which said that he won't have the time to work on the project, because of personal reasons and that his job requires him to travel a lot in the near future.
He was the Wiki Coordinator [1] and we have currently been working on organizing the people who work on the documentation in a better way. The goal was to raise everybody's awareness about what there is to do, so that we work together as best as possible.
As more and more volunteers have shown up in the last weeks and month, (which I am very happy about, by the way) I think that it is becoming more and more important that the documentation team will finally become a real "team", which more than just one person.
As long as we don't have a coordinator, I wouldn't like seeing things going down, so that I am going to take the role for a little while, until we found solutions for the problems we need to sort out. This is not intended to go on for more than one or two weeks.
What are those problems?
- We started working on a so called "workflow" [2], which should help to
keep us all on the "same page" - almost literally.
- We are planning to build translation teams, so that the documentation
team and the group of translations are completely independent. This only makes sense, because they always work independently and status of the translations also varies a lot.
I am still undecided on how we should handle this, so please feel free to send me ideas or opinions on this list.
- We have got a whole bunch of things to do at the moment. A lot of new
functionality has been added to the distribution and for parts of that there is no documentation at all.
So, there is a lot of chaos going on here right now. Now you know the reasons and I would be happy if we could solve this all together very soon.
-Michael
[1] http://wiki.ipfire.org/projects/docs/start [2] http://wiki.ipfire.org/projects/docs/workflow
Documentation mailing list Documentation@lists.ipfire.org http://lists.ipfire.org/mailman/listinfo/documentation
Hey Aaron,
of course our jobs and private lives have got a higher priority than the IPFire project.
It's always good to know if someone is busy and not as available as usual, so that the others can plan around that. So I appreciate that Erik told us about the situation he is in and so did you, too.
There will be times when you guys have the time to do the stuff you really would like to do. :)
Best, -Michael
On Sat, 2013-08-10 at 13:54 +0100, Aaron Philpott wrote:
Hi Michael
I've not been as involved with the project as I'd like in terms of creating documentation or creating content for my YouTube channel based on IPFire because I've been super busy with work and family stuff.
It doesn't look like this will change much in the near future either. But I'd still like to help in any way I can. The only problem I have is a lack of knowledge of certain elements within IPFire.
Hopefully when I transition into my old job I should have some time to spare but we'll see how things go.
Aaron
On 10 Aug 2013 13:43, "Michael Tremer" michael.tremer@ipfire.org wrote: Hey guys,
on Thursday, Erik sent an email to the Core Developers which said that he won't have the time to work on the project, because of personal reasons and that his job requires him to travel a lot in the near future. He was the Wiki Coordinator [1] and we have currently been working on organizing the people who work on the documentation in a better way. The goal was to raise everybody's awareness about what there is to do, so that we work together as best as possible. As more and more volunteers have shown up in the last weeks and month, (which I am very happy about, by the way) I think that it is becoming more and more important that the documentation team will finally become a real "team", which more than just one person. As long as we don't have a coordinator, I wouldn't like seeing things going down, so that I am going to take the role for a little while, until we found solutions for the problems we need to sort out. This is not intended to go on for more than one or two weeks. What are those problems? * We started working on a so called "workflow" [2], which should help to keep us all on the "same page" - almost literally. * We are planning to build translation teams, so that the documentation team and the group of translations are completely independent. This only makes sense, because they always work independently and status of the translations also varies a lot. I am still undecided on how we should handle this, so please feel free to send me ideas or opinions on this list. * We have got a whole bunch of things to do at the moment. A lot of new functionality has been added to the distribution and for parts of that there is no documentation at all. So, there is a lot of chaos going on here right now. Now you know the reasons and I would be happy if we could solve this all together very soon. -Michael [1] http://wiki.ipfire.org/projects/docs/start [2] http://wiki.ipfire.org/projects/docs/workflow _______________________________________________ Documentation mailing list Documentation@lists.ipfire.org http://lists.ipfire.org/mailman/listinfo/documentation
Thanks. Next week I'm working 47 hours which will be interesting and then I'll be full time. In amongst that I've got to apply for jobs still plus some family stuff.
If I get a free weekend I'd like to develop some IPFire videos to aid the documentation. But it depends if you'd rather the documentation was sorted first before I do that. But I think it's best not to dither.
Aaron On 10 Aug 2013 15:08, "Michael Tremer" michael.tremer@ipfire.org wrote:
Hey Aaron,
of course our jobs and private lives have got a higher priority than the IPFire project.
It's always good to know if someone is busy and not as available as usual, so that the others can plan around that. So I appreciate that Erik told us about the situation he is in and so did you, too.
There will be times when you guys have the time to do the stuff you really would like to do. :)
Best, -Michael
On Sat, 2013-08-10 at 13:54 +0100, Aaron Philpott wrote:
Hi Michael
I've not been as involved with the project as I'd like in terms of creating documentation or creating content for my YouTube channel based on IPFire because I've been super busy with work and family stuff.
It doesn't look like this will change much in the near future either. But I'd still like to help in any way I can. The only problem I have is a lack of knowledge of certain elements within IPFire.
Hopefully when I transition into my old job I should have some time to spare but we'll see how things go.
Aaron
On 10 Aug 2013 13:43, "Michael Tremer" michael.tremer@ipfire.org wrote: Hey guys,
on Thursday, Erik sent an email to the Core Developers which said that he won't have the time to work on the project, because of personal reasons and that his job requires him to travel a lot in the near future. He was the Wiki Coordinator [1] and we have currently been working on organizing the people who work on the documentation in a better way. The goal was to raise everybody's awareness about what there is to do, so that we work together as best as possible. As more and more volunteers have shown up in the last weeks and month, (which I am very happy about, by the way) I think that it is becoming more and more important that the documentation team will finally become a real "team", which more than just one person. As long as we don't have a coordinator, I wouldn't like seeing things going down, so that I am going to take the role for a little while, until we found solutions for the problems we need to sort out. This is not intended to go on for more than one or two weeks. What are those problems? * We started working on a so called "workflow" [2], which should help to keep us all on the "same page" - almost literally. * We are planning to build translation teams, so that the documentation team and the group of translations are completely independent. This only makes sense, because they always work independently and status of the translations also varies a lot. I am still undecided on how we should handle this, so please feel free to send me ideas or opinions on this list. * We have got a whole bunch of things to do at the moment. A lot of new functionality has been added to the distribution and for parts of that there is no documentation at all. So, there is a lot of chaos going on here right now. Now you know the reasons and I would be happy if we could solve this all together very soon. -Michael [1] http://wiki.ipfire.org/projects/docs/start [2] http://wiki.ipfire.org/projects/docs/workflow _______________________________________________ Documentation mailing list Documentation@lists.ipfire.org http://lists.ipfire.org/mailman/listinfo/documentation
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