Here's an update from the Documentation Working Group (DocWG) on what has been happening in Drupal Documentation in the last six weeks: the successful start of the Drupal 8 User Guide and 929 edits on drupal.org.
Drupal 8 User Guide
At the beginning of June, we posted an proposal for a Drupal 8 User Guide with the idea to apply for a Community Cultivation Grant. The feedback was so overwhelmingly positive and included so many people interested in writing and editing, that we decided to skip asking for a grant and start working with all those additional contributors instead; see the Inaugural Update for details.
Jennifer and Joe then spent time at the Twin Cities Drupal Camp to work guidelines, templates and other practicalities, while Amber took over the project management. The work on the actual content started at a sprint there. We've taken the experience from the sprint and other feedback into account and continously develop the guidelines further so that there is now a comprehensive set of instructions and Quick Start Guide in the Contributor Guidelines. IRC meetings will take place every two weeks, to be announced on the Documentation groups page.
A big thanks to everybody who has contributed so far!
Thanks for contributing!
Since 1 June (our previous TMIDD post), 268 contributors have made 929 total Drupal.org documentation page revisions, including 7 people that made more than 20 edits:
- rrfegade (69 revisions)
- D34dMan (50 revisions)
- David_Rothstein (33 revisions)
- lolandese (24 revisions)
- Pierre.Vriens (24 revisions)
- YesCT (20 revisions)
200 people who just made one or two edits - but altogether that adds up to a lot of small an big fixes that make our documentation a shared effort and just that bit better for the next person who reads it. -- thanks everyone!
In addition, there were many many commits to Drupal Core and contributed projects that improved documentation -- these are hard to count, because many commits combine code and documentation -- but they are greatly appreciated too!
Documentation Priorities
The Current documentation priorities page is always a good place to look to figure out what to work on, and has been updated recently.
If you're new to contributing to documentation, these projects may seem a bit overwhelming -- so why not try out a New contributor task to get started?
Upcoming Events
- NYC Camp, New York, USA, 13-19 July
- Drupal GovDays with Extended sprints, Washington DC, USA, 22-24 July
- Drupal Camp North, Sunderland, UK, 24-26 July, with extended D8 sprint
- Druplaton, Lake Balaton, Hungary, 6-9 August
- DrupalCon Barcelona, Spain, 21-25 September, with a session Let's talk about documentation and a documentation sprint on Drupal 8 documentation and the D8 User Guide. Please sign up for the sprint!
Report from the Working Group
In the last weeks, we mainly focused on getting the Drupal 8 User Guide under way.
If you have comments or suggestions, please see the DocWG home page for how to contact us. Thanks!
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