[FM Discuss] Fw: Thunderbird Floss Manual - tasks and status

[John Curwood]

Hi Mark,

I think for the checking the Chapters marked "Feedback Please" it's a
good idea to use people on the list so that you get fresh perspective
from people that aren't involved in writing the Thunderbird manual at
all let alone the specific chapter requiring feedback.

By the way how do you want feed back to be received?

Via an email to the List or via the "Chapter Talk" link.

Cheers,

John

On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 11:59 -0500, Mark wrote:

> Hello All -
> 
> The Thunderbird manual team has been figuring out what it needs to do
> to finish the book and get it published. Adam thought that it would be
> good to share this discussion with the FM list. Please take a look and
> join in with suggestions and comments.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark
> 
> -------- Original Message -------- 
>                           Subject: 
> Re: Thunderbird Floss Manual -
> tasks and status
>                              Date: 
> Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:27:46 -0500
>                              From: 
> Mark <mark.brennan at gmx.com>
>                                To: 
> jen at mozillamessaging.com, Scott
> Nesbitt <nesbitt.scott at gmail.com>
>                                CC: 
> adam at flossmanuals.net
> 
> 
> Hi Jen and Scott-
> 
> I was a little unclear about how the statuses work, too. Once upon a
> time I was a print production manager for a publisher and a part of my
> job was getting documents through an editorial department. So, trying
> to put that experience to good use, here's my suggested process for
> how we can finish this project. 
> 
> 
> - Unpublished: Writing is in progress
> - Needs Feedback!: The chapter needs to be reviewed and commented on
> by someone other than the writer. This is when someone should test the
> task descriptions to confirm that they are correct.
> - To Be Copy-edited: Copy-edit the chapter for grammar and style but
> not for content.
> - To be proofed: One last check before completion.
> - Complete: Chapter is ready for publication
> - Published: Chapter is in production
> 
> At this point, we have many chapters that are ready for proofreading
> or for copy-editing plus a few that are unpublished or that need
> feedback. Let's start going through them one by one until we are
> finished. After proofreading is done for a chapter, we should set it
> to complete. When all the chapters are complete, we can go ahead and
> publish the manual. Are you comfortable with is approach? Should we do
> it differently?
> 
> About the image that doesn't appear when viewing the page, I had the
> same issue when reviewing the Composing chapter. 
> I don't know what caused it and I couldn't fix it. I ended up deleting
> the picture and re-inserting it. Deleting the picture from the page
> doesn't delete it from the system so I just grabbed the existing
> picture and put it back where it belonged.
> 
> When you say the build tools, are you referring to the "Publish"
> button on the left side of the FLOSS screen? Do you know what happens
> when you push it? I'm always a little hesitant to push a button when
> I'm not sure about what happens next...
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
> On 11/12/2010 07:30 PM, Jennifer Zickerman wrote: 
> 
> > Hi Mark. On the main Thunderbird page (where the chapters are
> > listed), I see that each chapter has a status-like value
> > ("unpublished", "to be proofed", etc). Can you tell me what these
> > statuses mean, and how I can help? What is the general status on the
> > project? 
> > 
> > Also, do you know why the link at the bottom of that page (to view
> > the manual) is 404? Adam asked me in IRC if I'd tried the build
> > tools yet - I don't know whether that was a hint or what. :) 
> > 
> > Also, I have a technical problem on the Getting Support page
> > (http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Thunderbird/GettingSupport).
> > When I edit the page, there is a graphic. But when I view the page,
> > I only see the graphic's alt tag ("thunderbird_support_search_engine
> > "). Any ideas? 
> > 
> > No worries if you don't know the answers to any of these questions -
> > I just thought I'd ask you first. :) 
> > 
> > jen. 
> 
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