<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>Totally agree there are people willing to contribute and believe there are three ways we can help with this.</div><div><br></div><div>1. Get the word out - We have social media presence on twitter and we aren't using it to inform potential documentation contributors to help with it.</div><div>2. Lower barrier to entry - Expecting users to file a bug report to then contribute to documentation isn't reasonable and not having a means to register on the wiki to potentially become an editor is also not inviting. If making it easy for people to contribute on a wiki isn't feasible without oversight, then maybe we should move to github or gitlab where it would be easy to approval push requests.</div><div>3. Outline areas of interest - We should identify and prioritize places in the documentation that need work, which we can point contributors to for them to work on<br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Yousuf<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 4:27 PM Emanuele Petriglia <<a href="mailto:xfce-dev@emanuelepetriglia.com" target="_blank">xfce-dev@emanuelepetriglia.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>
</p><blockquote type="cite">I'm certain there are more folks wanting
to get involved.</blockquote>
I think the same. I always keep an eye on bugzilla[0] to find
something to do.<br>
<br>
This opportunity can be useful to improve not only the
documentation but also the workflow.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
[0]:
<a href="https://bugzilla.xfce.org/buglist.cgi?component=General&list_id=56081&product=docs.xfce.org&resolution=" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.xfce.org/buglist.cgi?component=General&list_id=56081&product=docs.xfce.org&resolution=</a>---<br>
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<div>On 31/03/2020 10:47, Kevin Bowen wrote:<br>
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<p>I would definitely be interested in participating in this
effort. <br>
</p>
<p>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. <br>
</p>
<p>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. <br>
</p>
<p>I am willing to be a cheerleader for Xfce docs... ;-)</p>
<p>Let me know what I can do. I'd be willing to be a herder of
feral cats...<br>
</p>
<p>kev<br>
</p>
<div>On 3/27/20 2:58 AM, Sean Davis wrote:<br>
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<p>This does seem like a good opportunity for us. It looks like
applications open up mid-April, so let's keep this is mind.</p>
<p>Thanks for the heads up!</p>
<p>Sean<br>
</p>
<div>On 3/24/20 4:11 PM, Yousuf Philips
wrote:<br>
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<div>Hi Teams,</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>I came across this google announcement that I think
would benefit the community if we were part of to help
improve our documentation.<br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><a href="https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/03/announcing-season-of-docs-2020.html" target="_blank">https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/03/announcing-season-of-docs-2020.html</a></div>
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</div>
<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Yousuf<br>
</div>
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