After a big discussion with some of the core devs who attended the PNW Drupal Summit last weekend, I've created a page for people who don't consider themselves part of the Docs Team to sign up as willing to mentor people working on Docs. http://drupal.org/node/936522
The idea is that people working on docs often need help with technical details of what they're documenting, and don't know who they can ask. The people I was talking to were more than willing to help out, and we also talked about pairing up docs people with contrib maintainers so they can help maintain project-specific docs.
Thought I'd post here in case others have related ideas or want to add their names to the list.
ps. Happy Thanksgiving to any fellow Canadian Docs Team folks. ;)
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an inbetween?
This is so cool Ariane!!
I'm wondering if there can be an inbetween too - I'm not a contrib/core developer, or on the docs team - but I'm fluent in Drupal code & interested in helping out.
'Technical Mentor?' 'Drupal Mentor?'
Can't think of a good category...
(ps. Happy Thanksgiving!!!)
What is the best way to
What is the best way to contact the documentation mentors? Obviously through irc but what is the alternative? D.o contact form, d.o issue queue, twitter, ...
@chach - hah, thanks, happy
@chach - hah, thanks, happy not-thanksgiving for you ;) so, that's what i want the sort of general/core category to be - definitely sign up if you are willing/able to mentor, i don't think level matters too much as you would at least know who to direct people to if it was something you couldn't answer/help with. :)
@wmostrey - IRC is always #1 for me, or contact form if someone has it enabled (or if they're not online) and someone wants to contact personally. otherwise issue queue and this group are best if it's something others would be interested in as well (and also, because email is the hardest to keep up on when lots of people start contacting!)