The Drupal Association has just announced Community Cultivation Grants for 2012, and I'd like to get the Documentation Team ready to apply for one at the end of the summer. If you're a Drupal site builder or a module developer, you can help!! Here's the plan:
a) Google Summer of Code student Gergely/temaruk is working on one big missing piece of the Official/Curated Docs/Help System this summer.
b) Here's where you come in... The rest of the Documentation Team will make sure that the rest of the system is ready go go by the end of the summer too! (See below for details on how you can help.)
c) We'll get this system deployed on either Drupal.org or a sub-site (help.drupal.org, docs.drupal.org, or whatever), so that all projects can start writing their official documentation.
d) We'll apply for a grant to get a group of 6-10 people together in person for a week (with others helping remotely) to write the first Official Manual for Drupal, using the proven process that was used at last year's Google Summer of Code Documentation Summit.
Sound good? Great! Here's how you can help! We need to make sure that the whole Help/Docs system is built and ready to use. We have a tracking issue, and the main missing piece for the system is the "workflow" part, which has its own issue too.
We need the help of both site builder types and programmers on the workflow piece. Basically, we need project owners to be able to designate who can add/edit their official documentation topics and "maps" (outlines), and as a bonus, it would be great if community members could propose revisions for editorial approval. Right now, we need site builders to help evaluate existing workflow modules that might help us have this ability. And then, assuming there isn't a workflow module that does specifically this out of the box, we will need some programming help to customize the closest-fit module so it actually fits our needs.
If you'd like to help, please either find me in IRC, comment here, or comment on the workflow issue. Let's get this done!