HUGE thanks to HansBKK for doing the summary this time round. Here is the full log: http://pastebin.com/f31e56f30 This is the summary for today's IRC meeting, with a few edits by me:
Meeting agenda: http://groups.drupal.org/node/16343
Announcement: ical feed on the group's upcoming events block
Assessing open editing
Addy's thoughts: http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/documentation/2008-November/006351.htm...
Consensus it's all good, non-docs team people making useful edits, it's quick to review, just check the diff. Decision: Leave it open, revisit if issues later on, no fixed review date.
Ideas/thoughts/suggestions
Most people don't know they can edit, suggestion to encourage them, along the lines of "This is a community contributed page. Please feel free to improve it with your edits."
Some issues re test posts, spam but not a lot. Creation of a sandbox for noobs to test post to, could link from the "Please do NOT post test pages. Drupal.org is a production site and you will not be able to delete content once you post it." text.
Also steer people to the issues queue to ask for help re creating pages.
Addy's idea on a "speed bump" on creating pages, parking them in a separate book to then be placed (by doc team members?): http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/documentation/2008-November/006351.htm...
Idea to let the author suggest a place then let it be confirmed or moved rather than a separate book? Needs infrastructure. Don't want to create bottleneck or extra management overhead, leave for redesign.
Idea to display badges based on docteam membership, site maintainer role, help prioritize edits needing review.
Redesign ideas - would be great if only a small subset of people made "structural" changes.
a rating system on posts that flowed through to user ratings
Thank you messages and invitation to join the docs team - automated?
Tracking who's making a lot of edits recently.
Way to flag edits not yet reviewed - workflow system.
Things to work on
Recent edits page at http://drupal.org/handbook/updates needs a pager rather than just bumping the fixed number up, pending Views implementation.
Need to get one non-conflicting patch made and then Addy will poke the infra dudes.
Redesign
Redesign effort, current doc-specific thread: http://groups.drupal.org/node/15965
Current design iteration: http://groups.drupal.org/node/16548
Other projects
Work needed on getting some content into the D6 getting started guide, and getting the handbook style guide reviewed, refreshed and prominent, actually use it once we have something we like. Addy wants to work on templates,like README.txt files for module devs and various handook content like snippets.
We need to continue discussion and plan another meeting to line up projects.
Summarizer's current hobby horse:
Decision needed on the version "forking" issue, e.g. reorg the theme guides:
http://drupal.org/node/254947
http://groups.drupal.org/node/15965#comment-56550
http://drupal.org/node/105356#comment-1094732
Briefing doc on groups page, then vote?
Or if decision is yes, merge topics then next process is deciding specifically how to start the process.