Steve,<br><br>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 ;-)<br>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:<br>
<br>1. Give commiter access for those who require update access<br>2. Create RFC for the general documentation rules<br>3. Review the new (or existing) docs with regards to the validity and format rules before it gets committed<br>
4. Take care of the match of the contents and the versions <br>4. Accept and handle doc specific issues/tickets in trac<br>5. Might synchronize the locale specific contents<br><br>etc.<br><br>I'm thinking about Jeff to take on the guidance of this group would be cool.<br>
<br>I add +1 to have commit access for those who maintain documentation stuff.<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Tamas<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/1/12 Steve Lime <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Steve.Lime@dnr.state.mn.us">Steve.Lime@dnr.state.mn.us</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I wish we could segment out write access for documentation/website from<br>
source code. I don't<br>
think that's possible though. At any rate, we have a bit of processes<br>
to work through:<br>
<br>
1) PSC members need to vote on this change<br>
<br>
2) Those folks gaining commit rights would need to acknowledge<br>
adherence to:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-7.1.html" target="_blank">http://www.mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-7.1.html</a><br>
<br>
I'd like to hear from Jeff or Howard on how to best handle multiple<br>
languages before work<br>
started.<br>
<br>
Although I wish we were talking about fewer folks it's hard to say no<br>
to anyone willing to work<br>
on documentation. So, assuming Jeff and Howard are cool with this and<br>
acceptance of commit<br>
guidelines I'll start this off with a +1.<br>
<br>
Steve<br>
<br>
BTW I suggest adding trac components for each language specific<br>
documentation effort.<br>
<br>
>>> On 1/12/2009 at 9:19 AM, in message<br>
<<a href="mailto:496B5F64.9060402@wheregroup.com">496B5F64.9060402@wheregroup.com</a>>, "Astrid<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Emde (WhereGroup)" <<a href="mailto:astrid.emde@wheregroup.com">astrid.emde@wheregroup.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hello Paul,<br>
><br>
> Paul Ramsey schrieb:<br>
>> how about docs/de/handbuch ?<br>
>><br>
> yes - this would be a good name for us.<br>
>> On a related note, how much translation has happened in the<br>
Mapserver<br>
>> documentation/website arena?<br>
>><br>
> We published a german side <a href="http://umn-mapserver.de/" target="_blank">http://umn-mapserver.de/</a> but as you can<br>
see -<br>
> it is quite out of date and better should link to the <a href="http://mapserver.org" target="_blank">mapserver.org</a><br>
> page. I asked already about setting up a translation of the<br>
> mapserver-page in german but we didn't work on it while the side was<br>
at<br>
> plone.<br>
><br>
> It would be the best to integrate the german sides in<br>
> htp://<a href="http://mapserver.org" target="_blank">mapserver.org</a>. Jeff wrote that the side is automatically<br>
generated<br>
> from the svn. So as we need svn right anyway, we could work on the<br>
> german translation of the <a href="http://mapserver.org" target="_blank">mapserver.org</a> pages too.<br>
><br>
><br>
>> There's obviously potential both for the current english docs to be<br>
>> german'ed and for the german handbook to be english'ed.<br>
>><br>
> I agree.<br>
><br>
> The german speaking community is quite big. I guess that we would<br>
easily<br>
> find some people who would help to work on the tranlations and keep<br>
an<br>
> eye on them.<br>
> You just would have to give an instruction who the structure of the<br>
> files in the svn has to be and how the pages have to be formated.<br>
><br>
> About the svn access:<br>
> Could I send you a list of osgeo members and you could give access<br>
> rights to them?<br>
><br>
> Thanks for your help.<br>
><br>
> Astrid<br>
>> P.<br>
>><br>
>> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Astrid Emde (WhereGroup)<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:astrid.emde@wheregroup.com">astrid.emde@wheregroup.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> Hello mapserver-devs,<br>
>>><br>
>>> we are working on a UMN MapServer handbook in german language,<br>
which<br>
>>> will<br>
>>> be online available in the osgeo.wiki, also as pdf and in a<br>
printable<br>
>>> version.<br>
>>><br>
>>> We want to create mapfiles and offer demo data. It would be good if<br>
we<br>
>>> could get a place in the mapserver svn where we can manage and work<br>
<br>
>>> on the<br>
>>> files.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Therefore we have the following question:<br>
>>> Would it be possible to create a folder maybe under<br>
>>><br>
>>> <a href="http://svn.osgeo.org/mapserver/trunk/docs/" target="_blank">http://svn.osgeo.org/mapserver/trunk/docs/</a><br>
>>><br>
>>> it could be named umn_mapserver_hanbuch<br>
>>><br>
>>> and get commit rights for maybe 8 persons?<br>
>>><br>
>>> Best regard and greatings from germany<br>
>>><br>
>>> Astrid Emde<br>
>>><br>
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