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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Software quality on our OSGeo-Live 6.5 release is looking
very promising, and starting with this release, we hope to start
bringing documentation quality up one notch, by putting the
Quickstarts through the same comprehensive review that we have
done for our Project Overviews, tracking status in our<span
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background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Status Spreadsheet</a>.</p>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">We see this as a 3 step process:</p>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Projects ensure their
quickstarts are up to date, set "Quickstart Status"="6.5draft"</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">A non-project person, runs every
step of the quickstart, and makes sure it runs ok. set
"Quickstart Status"="6.5reviewed".</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">One of our writers reviews for
readability. (I'm volunteering to be one of these people). Set
"Quickstart Status"="6.5final".</li>
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<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.03333282470703px;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start;
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widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">We're looking for are around 10 people who can dedicate a
couple of hours over the next couple of months to run a few
Quickstarts and verify they are accurate and understandable. If
you can help out, please contact me, or speak up on the osgeo-live
email list.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.03333282470703px;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;
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widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">We've started a review checklist, and am open to suggested
improvements:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Quickstart_Review_Checklist"
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initial; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); background-image:
url(http://wiki.osgeo.org/skins/monobook/external.png);
padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%;
background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Quickstart_Review_Checklist</a></p>
<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.03333282470703px;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">For the OSGeo-Live 6.5 release, we'd like to update as many
Quickstarts as we can within the next two weeks, by 4 February
2013.<br>
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