[mapserver-dev] Motion: managing UMN MapServer handbook files(german language) in the mapserver-svn

[Tamas Szekeres]

Steve,

I'd happy to have more people getting involved in the MapServer
documentation area. It seems neglected quite a lot as we rather do coding
than documenting most of the time ;-)
How about forming a sub-committee having more specific rules and guidelines
to provide the "official" documentation stuff. Those folks would be
responsible to for example:

1. Give commiter access for those who require update access
2. Create RFC for the general documentation rules
3. Review the new (or existing) docs with regards to the validity and format
rules before it gets committed
4. Take care of the match of the contents and the versions
4. Accept and handle doc specific issues/tickets in trac
5. Might synchronize the locale specific contents

etc.

I'm thinking about Jeff to take on the guidance of this group would be cool.

I add +1 to have commit access for those who maintain documentation stuff.

Best regards,

Tamas






2009/1/12 Steve Lime <Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us>

> I wish we could segment out write access for documentation/website from
> source code. I don't
> think that's possible though. At any rate, we have a bit of processes
> to work through:
>
>  1) PSC members need to vote on this change
>
>  2) Those folks gaining commit rights would need to acknowledge
> adherence to:
>
>  http://www.mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-7.1.html
>
> I'd like to hear from Jeff or Howard on how to best handle multiple
> languages before work
> started.
>
> Although I wish we were talking about fewer folks it's hard to say no
> to anyone willing to work
> on documentation. So, assuming Jeff and Howard are cool with this and
> acceptance of commit
> guidelines I'll start this off with a +1.
>
> Steve
>
> BTW I suggest adding trac components for each language specific
> documentation effort.
>
> >>> On 1/12/2009 at 9:19 AM, in message
> <496B5F64.9060402 at wheregroup.com>, "Astrid
> Emde (WhereGroup)" <astrid.emde at wheregroup.com> wrote:
> > Hello Paul,
> >
> > Paul Ramsey schrieb:
> >> how about docs/de/handbuch ?
> >>
> > yes - this would be a good name for us.
> >> On a related note, how much translation has happened in the
> Mapserver
> >> documentation/website arena?
> >>
> > We published a german side http://umn-mapserver.de/ but as you can
> see -
> > it is quite out of date and better should link to the mapserver.org
> > page. I asked already about setting up a translation of the
> > mapserver-page  in german but we didn't work on it while the side was
> at
> > plone.
> >
> > It would be the best to integrate the german sides in
> > htp://mapserver.org. Jeff wrote that the side is automatically
> generated
> > from the svn. So as we need svn right anyway, we could work on the
> > german translation of the mapserver.org pages too.
> >
> >
> >> There's obviously potential both for the current english docs to be
> >> german'ed and for the german handbook to be english'ed.
> >>
> > I agree.
> >
> > The german speaking community is quite big. I guess that we would
> easily
> > find some people who would help to work on the tranlations and keep
> an
> > eye on them.
> > You just would have to give an instruction who the structure of the
> > files in the svn has to be and how the pages have to be formated.
> >
> > About the svn access:
> > Could I send you a list of osgeo members and you could give access
> > rights to them?
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > Astrid
> >> P.
> >>
> >> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Astrid Emde (WhereGroup)
> >> <astrid.emde at wheregroup.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hello mapserver-devs,
> >>>
> >>> we are working on a UMN MapServer handbook in german language,
> which
> >>> will
> >>> be online available in the osgeo.wiki, also as pdf and in a
> printable
> >>> version.
> >>>
> >>> We want to create mapfiles and offer demo data. It would be good if
> we
> >>> could get a place in the mapserver svn where we can manage and work
>
> >>> on the
> >>> files.
> >>>
> >>> Therefore we have the following question:
> >>> Would it be possible to create a folder maybe under
> >>>
> >>> http://svn.osgeo.org/mapserver/trunk/docs/
> >>>
> >>> it could be named umn_mapserver_hanbuch
> >>>
> >>> and get commit rights for maybe 8 persons?
> >>>
> >>> Best regard and greatings from germany
> >>>
> >>> Astrid Emde
> >>>
> >>> ----------------------------------
> >>>
> >>>  FOSSGIS Konferenz 2009
> >>>  17.-19. März 2009 in Hannover
> >>>  http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz
> >>>
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