[sylpheed:33131] Re: Sylpheed documentation (was: Sylpheed 2.7.0 released)

[Petr Kovar]

Hi!

James P Dugan <dugan.james at gmail.com>, Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:12:49 -0400:

> On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:57:22 +0200
> Francois Barriere <francois.barriere at rfo.atmel.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello there,
> > 
> >    i'm the old maintainer of the english manual and the sylpheeddoc
> > project on SF. Due to a lack of time, I haven't done any work on this
> > for years... I will be happy to find someone to lead the project, and
> > will also be happy to help, as much as I can...
> > I will also be happy to find a native english writer to lead the
> > project...
> > 
> <snipped>
> 
> I would be more than willing to help in the authoring of a current
> english version of the documentation.  This would be the first time I
> have documented an open source project, but not my first time writing
> software documentation.  If I can be of assistance to the group who will
> be doing this, please do not hesitate to ask.

Your help would be very needed and much appreciated! Please refer to
the Sylpeed Documentation Project (sylpheeddoc) sourceforge.net page for
more details about the documentation effort, [1] esp. the mailing list [2]
and code repository [3] where development revisions of documentation are
stored. See also the message I posted to the mailing list several days ago.
[4]

Currently, the situation with sylpheeddoc is as follows: I've finished
SGML to XML migration and have done some basic updates to the FAQ document
that is being distributed along with the manual. Still it needs a great
amount of work, mainly adding new and up-to-date questions (and answers,
obviously). As for the manual part, this remains untouched as far as
content is concerned. The manual has like 20 chapters and ca. 80 pages,
large parts of it are likely to be completely removed or rewritten from
scratch, other parts and the general layout of the document seems quite
fine and up-to-date to me.

So as you can see, lots of work waiting for everyone. :-) However, I
suggest to continue in docs discussion on a more appropriate mailing list,
i.e. sylpheeddoc-users at lists.sourceforge.net. Also everybody else with a
willingness to help, please join us there!

Thanks,
Petr Kovar

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/sylpheeddoc/
[2] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sylpheeddoc-users
[3] http://sourceforge.net/scm/?type=cvs&group_id=20952
[4]
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=sylpheeddoc-users