I posted a couple of messages to the dev list, but didn't get much of a response. Can someone tell me where I can begin to help working on documentation? I know it's not always pleasant working with a noob, but I learn quickly and can be a lot of help if you point me in the right direction :) I'm willing to work on anything, wherever I'm needed most.

Le Wednesday 19 September 2007 18:10:35 Alexandre Prokoudine, vous avez écrit : > On 9/19/07, Joshua Facemyer / Impressus Art wrote: > >> I posted a couple of messages to the dev list, but didn't get much of a >> response. Can someone tell me where I can begin to help working on >> documentation? >> >> I know it's not always pleasant working with a noob, but I learn quickly >> and can be a lot of help if you point me in the right direction :) >> >> I'm willing to work on anything, wherever I'm needed most. >> > Cedric, Elisa, do you have a summary on status of EN-FR sync and list > of missing parts in the docs? > > Alexandre > Hello, I'm Elisa and I write in french in the manual. So scuse my terrible english. I don't understand exactly your question Alexandre, but i give some explaination for Joshua : First, a long time ago, Kevin wrote a non official manual. When Sodipodi was born, Pygmee begin a manual in english or/and in french. When Inkscape was born, Pygmee pursue. Kevin and Pygmee join their work. Kevin, nowadays no work for Inkscape. Pygmee know english and write the manual in both languages (first en french, after en english I think). I just wrote in french. Now, only the chapter 1 in french of the manual is ok to translation into english. I don't know how the manual in english is updated. We have a little team in french : I read the first (old) write of Pygmee. I add new things. We have two people who make corrections and suggestions. I make the ultimate change and after it's ok for traduction. Pygmee was a little away for 2 months. But i know, often, he add in the french manual the information of the release notes (in the wiki) and he translate it into french. I begun with the chapter 1, Now i'm in the chapter 2 (after chapter 3 etc). Then i think we don't have any summary on status of EN-FR sync neither list of missing part in french or un english. Hope you understand me. Any questions ? Elisa

On 9/20/07, Joshua Facemyer / Impressus Art wrote: > What I'd like to know now is: > > - who is leading the En doc team? Or, if nobody is, then who has the > most knowledge of what's going on and is active enough to answer quesitons? > > - where are the current French and English versions found? > https://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/user_manual/trunk/xml/ > - how do I get commit access to them? > Two patches and you are granted commit access > - who on the French team wants to work with me to get the English in > sync and possibly take any new material I write in English and translate > to French? (Who is the liaison, to put it in your terms :) > > I really want to begin working on this. I'll need information on > format, etc., from somebody who knows all that. I'd also like to put > all this info somewhere on the "we need help" page, because it's not > there right now and it's frustrating to try to find out this stuff when > the info is not there. Maybe I'm wrong, though, so if I am point me in > the right direction. > http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/UserManual http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/User_Manual_Work_in_Progress Alexandre ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Inkscape-docs mailing list Inkscape-docs(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-docs