[kde-doc-english] Re: [Kde-pim] Re: KDE PIM docs

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Thursday 26 February 2004 00:25, Carlos Leonhard Woelz wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 February 2004 17:23, Lauri Watts wrote:
> > On documentation quality team jobs generally:
> > If someone is willing to do a finer grained review, a list of
> > specific issues, new items to be added, and things that are no
> > longer accurate, would be a huge help for me (and the team), either
> > on a doc-by-doc basis, or for the whole module (or indeed, for any
> > document you can find.)  This is a highly tedious and time
> > consuming thing to do, and it pretty much eats up the few doc
> > resources we have, prior to each release.
> >
> > When we have such a list, a competent writer can generally go
> > through and fix all the items in a fraction of the time it takes to
> > carefully compare the document and the interface and find the
> > changes.
> >
> > We often get these filed as bugs (one issue per bug, ideally) by
> > the translators, and it's a huge help.  It'd be nice to catch them
> > earlier in the process, so the translators don't have to do it
> > (they have limited time too, and if they're finding errors, it
> > means the docs are out of date already)
> >
> > It's the kind of thing that takes absolutely no experience of any
> > kind, either with the app, programming, or writing, and it's a
> > great way to familiarise yourself with an application - selling it
> > this way might make this the perfect "total beginner but wants to
> > contribute" job.
>
> It unfortunately requires an unstable KDE build, but otherwise is
> indeed a great introductory task.

I just want to point out that this isn't entirely true. At least not for 
working on KDE PIM because the development versions of KDE PIM 
application depend on the stable KDE 3.2 libraries. You still need the 
latest development version of KDE PIM of course, but that's pretty 
stable since we use it all the time.

Regards,
Ingo
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