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FreeBSD Developer Summit: Documentation Working Group

6 October 2011 (Thursday 10:30 - 13:00), schedule: TBD

Overview

This working group will focus on improving the FreeBSD documentation set, both in terms of content as well as tool support and collaboration between doc committers. With the upcoming FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE, we need to get the documentation into the right shape so that it accurately reflects and documents the features of this release. Also, we want to continue some of the stuff we discussed at the BSDCan DevSummit and talk about what progress has been made since then. We encourage every documentation committer or member of a FreeBSD translation project to attend, even if they have never been to any of these working groups in the past.

If you would like to participate, contact either one of the chair persons below and CC devsummit@. We will then add you to this page. Please include a list of things you want to talk about or the areas you are interested in. This helps us in planning the session and to bring people together with common interests.

We will try to bring in people who cannot attend in person via videoconference or chat tools. Notes during the session will be published later on for the whole community to see what we discussed.

Goals

In particular, we would like to cover the following topics. This is not an exhaustive list and if you feel there is something missing that you want to talk about, contact one of the session chairs and we will include your topic here. Note that the numbering of the topics does not represent an ordering or importance indication of any kind, but rather a reference to the second table with the "topic of interest" column.

Topics

#

Topic description

1

Status of the CVS to SVN conversion efforts

2

Status of the DocBook SGML to XML conversion efforts

3

Work on the FreeBSD handbook and other documents that needs to be done before FreeBSD 9.X, with special focus on the new installation chapter

4

Publication of the handbook as ebooks and print-editions

5

Regular doc sprints/talks on IRC

6

Tool support for documentation work (pootle, etherpad, etc.)

7

Revisit, assign, and resolve items on the DocIdeaList

Note: General presentations about work you have done that does not require further discussions should be submitted for the FreeBSD Developers' Summit track at EuroBSDcon (see general developer summit page).

Attending

In order to attend you need register for the developer summit as well as by email for the session and be confirmed by the working group organizer. Follow the guidelines described on the main page or what you received by email. For questions or if in doubt ask the session chairs, Dru Lavigne and Benedict Reuschling. There are 20 seats.

Please do NOT add yourself here. Your name will appear automatically once you received the confirmation email. You need to put your name on the general developer summit attendees list though.

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Name

Username / Affiliation

Topics of Interest

Notes

1

DruLavigne

dru

Session chair (1/2)

2

BenedictReuschling

bcr

Session chair (2/2)

3

HirokiSato

hrs / doceng

presentation

4

GavinAtkinson

gavin

5

NiclasZeising

Erandir

6

GáborKövesdán

gabor

DocBook XML / SVN repo layout

via videoconference

7

SimonNielsen

simon

SVN repo layout

via videoconference (not sure yet)

8

WilkoBulte

wilko

9

GlenBarber

gjb

via videoconference

Results

Documentation Working Group Status Report


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