xfce documentation

Brock Hudson escapingsummer at gmail.com
Wed Jan 12 20:00:53 CET 2011


Thanks, I appreciate your help and I will read through the documentation
guidelines asap. I understand that the project makes use of git, but is
there any one person whom I should be submitting any documentation for
review to?

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Mike Massonnet <mmassonnet at xfce.org> wrote:

> Hi Brock,
>
> 2011/1/11 Brock Hudson <escapingsummer at gmail.com>:
> > I have been a long user of xfce, and I am an avid reader of
> > documentation, however I noticed that 4.6 is missing documentation and
> > under the development tab on the website it stated that documentation
> > "needed some love" along with information on requesting to help. I
> > would like to help with documentation if at all possible.
>
> Currently we are in a phase where documentation for Xfce 4.8 is almost
> inexistent.
>
> You can copy the documentation from Xfce 4.6 (which for some
> components is a copy from 4.4) to have a starting point.
>
> Furthermore, documentation is ment to be migrated inside the specially
> crafted xfce4-docs git repository, so some minimal git knowledge is
> most certainly needed.
> You can find instructions for writers and developpers at the following
> Wiki section:
> http://wiki.xfce.org/documentation
>
> I started the pages about a month ago. I invite you to go through them
> to have a good idea of how documentation should be set up :)
>
> If you have questions for getting started with a git clone repo for
> example or how to submit your changes (hint: "git format-patch origin"
> to create patches of your commits), feel free to ask.
>
> Kind Regards
> --
> Mike
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