documentation in GSoC

Matt Dew marcoz at osource.org
Thu Feb 3 15:20:19 PST 2011


I didn't want to be presumptious and volunteer everyone on the list as a
mentor for docs updating.   Peter's reply was a nice entryway into asking
people.

There's lots of docs that need some lovin'.   Content-wise, style-wise, xml
tags update-wise.  More than enough work to keep a couple people busy for 3
months.

I editted the gsoc page with my thoughts:
http://www.x.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas

Matt

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Alan Coopersmith <
alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:

> Sure, but remember that GSoC projects are supposed to be equivalent to a
> full-time job for 3 months, so it would have to be a bit more than just
> fixing the documentation for a single library.
>
> Perhaps something on the order of the long dreamed about integration of the
> protocol specs into the XCB XML protocol files.
>
>        -alan-
>
> On 02/ 3/11 02:45 PM, Matt Dew wrote:
> > I want to add documentation as an Xorg GSoC 2011 project.   Should any
> student
> > choose it, you guys be up for being pestered?
> >
> > Matt
> >
> > On 02/03/2011 03:10 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> >> On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 06:50:23PM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> >>> Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith<alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
> >>
> >> This should probably be followed up with a note that this document is
> >> outdated and desparately needs some update lovin'. otherwise
> >> Reviewed-by:  Peter Hutterer<peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>    Peter
> >>
>
>
> --
>        -Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
>         Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
>
>
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