This is a copy of the summary email for the Sept 14 IRC meeting, sent out to the Documentation mail list at http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/documentation/2008-September/006273.html
Here is the IRC log from the meeting: http://pastebin.com/f183bcc8d
We had several announcements at the beginning of the meeting and then we hit the two agenda items. As usual if I missed anything in here or others have feedback/thoughts, feel free to add to this summary. Thanks to all who attended.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
New read-only group page: http://groups.drupal.org/documentation-team
KDI proposal for doc sprints: http://groups.drupal.org/node/14669
The d.o redesign underway: http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-org-redesign-analysis
- Ways to help out with the redesign: http://groups.drupal.org/node/14643
- D.o Wireframe game: http://www.disambiguity.com/drupalorg-come-wireframe-with-me/
Webchick wants feedback on the D7 help text system. She'll be posting to the list soon with more details, but one issue to jump in on is at http://drupal.org/node/299050
AGENDA
Getting involved handbook
The Getting involved book needs to get pushed over the finish line. We need to flech out the issues for it. Many people are unsure of exactly what to do, so we decided that having a few short virtual sprints specifically focused on the Getting involved book would help. We will be scheduling those later this week. The goal is to officially create the new book and announce it to the community by Sept 28.
A discussion that arose from this was how difficult it is to keep track of all of the projects and dates for doc team work. We agreed that getting a more streamlined and public way of our ongoing work and meetings would be desired. We will create a small "working group" of folks interested in sorting that out and implementing. emmajane has started a thread for that.
Opening editing rights to auth. users
The majority decision on this point is to open the editing rights to all auth users for a one month test period. There are a few things we would like in place prior to doing that, namely getting Moshe's path linking to diffs from the Latest updates page and requiring the revision log to be filled out when editing. We also looked at an issue on the idea of having a delay period for new users http://drupal.org/node/307650, though this will take a while to implement and so won't happen before the initial trial. Anyone interested in this feature should chime in on the thread so we can nail down a direction and work on the code to make it happen on d.o. The biggest thing that needs to happen now is getting the infra team on board to implement the change.
NEXT STEPS
Getting involved (GI):
- Get GI issues filled out: http://drupal.org/project/issues?projects=18753&text=Contrib%20Redesign:
- Set new docs vocab: http://drupal.org/node/304826
- Do some GI sprints: I'll send a followup email out re: sprint scheduling
- Post to d.o front page re: handbook reorg: We can write this up once we get closer
Opening edit rights:
- Check with infra about the next steps to implement: I'll do that this week
- Get recent updates patch going: http://drupal.org/node/304667 (need to check with Moshe on this)
- Get required revision log patch done: http://drupal.org/node/308675
- Write up an announcement for d.o front page
New tasks:
mechfish created an issue for a Recent updates RSS feed: http://drupal.org/node/308354
emmajane has started a thread about schedule/calendar issues: http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/documentation/2008-September/006267.html
- Addi (add1sun)