Want to help with docs

Burkhard Lück lueck at hube-lueck.de
Sat Mar 25 17:11:24 UTC 2017


Am Samstag, 25. März 2017, 17:49:23 CET schrieb Burkhard Lück:
> Hi Ivan,
> 
> Am Samstag, 25. März 2017, 09:36:46 CET schrieb Ivan Stanton:
> > I tried to improve the Userbase wiki, but the Userbase wiki is just
> > broken. I can't use a Phabricator account with it, for example.
> > Since KHelpCenter luckily does not refer to the outdated Userbase
> > wiki, I wanted to develop documentation directly. Where can I
> > contribute to the docs? Do I need any special privileges? If so, how
> > would I earn those?
> 
> First step is to subscribe to this list on
> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-doc-english
> 
> The status of the docbooks you find on
> https://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Documentation/KDE_(health_table)
> 
> On https://docs.kde.org/ you find the documentation in html and pdf format.
> 
> On https://l10n.kde.org/docs/ in the section Writing Documentation is
> more info about the kde documentation.
> 
> We use https://phabricator.kde.org/project/profile/91/ for reviews.
> 
> You need an account on https://identity.kde.org/
> 
> You should have uptodate Frameworks / Workspace / Application either build
> from sources or - much easier - use "Developer Edition Git-Unstable" from
> https://neon.kde.org/download in a virtual machine.
> 
> You also reach team members in the
> KDE Documentation Project Channel #kde-docs on irc.freenode.net
> 
> Usually the best way to start is to read what we have on docs.kde.org for
> applications you are familar with and see what is missing/wrong or could be
> improved.
> 
> Please announce here on the list if you start working with a docbook to
> avoid clashes.
> 
> My favourite editor is Kate with the XML plugin
> 
> Don't hesitate to ask quetsion here on list.
> 
> Welcome aboard

Forgot this:

The docbook templates
*template.docbook on https://cgit.kde.org/kdoctools.git/tree/src

documentation bugs:

https://bugs.kde.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=docs

To identify missing/wrong/outdated/new content in the docbooks i use

https://www.kde.org/announcements/

developer blogs: https://planet.kde.org/

user questions on https://userbase.kde.org/

-- 
Burkhard Lück



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