Seasons of Docs 2020

[Emanuele Petriglia]

Hi,

> I'm certain there are more folks wanting to get involved.
I think the same. I always keep an eye on bugzilla[0] to find something
to do.

This opportunity can be useful to improve not only the documentation but
also the workflow.

An idea I was thinking is to add man pages to all programs. Xfce
programs are mainly GUI, but a basic man page is useful, especially if
they have command line arguments. Some distributions, like Debian,
provide custom man pages but I think it is better to have them in upstream.

[0]:
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/buglist.cgi?component=General&list_id=56081&product=docs.xfce.org&resolution=---

On 31/03/2020 10:47, Kevin Bowen wrote:
>
> I would definitely be interested in participating in this effort.
>
> With the release of 4.14, I spent a bit of effort cleaning up the
> existing documentation for the release. I've seen a few people step up
> and contribute. I'm certain there are more folks wanting to get
> involved. Documentation could be a great gateway to participating in OSS.
>
> I would like to see how we can move forward towards 4.16 and provide
> users with a better experience with the documentation/help
> system/READMEs.
>
> I am willing to be a cheerleader for Xfce docs... ;-)
>
> Let me know what I can do. I'd be willing to be a herder of feral cats...
>
> kev
>
> On 3/27/20 2:58 AM, Sean Davis wrote:
>>
>> This does seem like a good opportunity for us. It looks like
>> applications open up mid-April, so let's keep this is mind.
>>
>> Thanks for the heads up!
>>
>> Sean
>>
>> On 3/24/20 4:11 PM, Yousuf Philips wrote:
>>> Hi Teams,
>>>
>>> I came across this google announcement that I think would benefit
>>> the community if we were part of to help improve our documentation.
>>>
>>> https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/03/announcing-season-of-docs-2020.html
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Yousuf
>>>
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Emanuele Petriglia (ema-pe)

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