[kde-doc-english] Doc team website

[Lauri Watts]

On Thursday 28 July 2005 03.26, Jessica Hall wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 00:15, Lauri Watts wrote:

> One thing to watch with using 'contribute to KDE' instead of 'Join the docs
> team' ... I'm sure everyone on this list has heard from someone at least
> once that  'Documentation is what you can do if you're not good enough to
> be a programmer' and I'd love to open the site with strong paragraphs
> focusing on technical writing as a highly specialised skill, not something
> you can fall back on if you're not a very good coder. I really want to
> eradicate this 'Well if you're no good at anything else you can always
> write docs!' attitude that many people outside of the docs team seem to
> have =)

Yeah, the infamous "I am learning C++. I've never programmed before, but in 
the three weeks that this will take, I will be gracing the documentation team 
with the benefit of my brilliance. I plan to do a complete rewrite of <insert 
any actually already maintained doc here, it's never one that *needs* work>"

That point could be clarified, one of the things I was getting at was that 
some people are a little wary of what joining the docs team might mean in 
terms of commitment.  Some of us aren't born with that rah rah team player 
spirit.  We need to make it clear they don't have to commit to anything long 
term, but that every bit of useful documentation is a welcome contribution to 
KDE as a whole.

Regards,
-- 
Lauri Watts
KDE Documentation: http://docs.kde.org
KDE on FreeBSD: http://freebsd.kde.org
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