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

[Mark]

Hello John -

Please email feedback to the list.

Also, what happens when someone pushes the Publish button?

Thanks,

Mark

On 11/15/2010 03:47 PM, John Curwood wrote:
> 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> <mailto:mark.brennan at gmx.com>
>> *To: * 	jen at mozillamessaging.com <mailto:jen at mozillamessaging.com>, 
>> Scott Nesbitt <nesbitt.scott at gmail.com> <mailto:nesbitt.scott at gmail.com>
>> *CC: * 	adam at flossmanuals.net <mailto: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 - Unpublished: Writing is in progress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 or for copy-editing plus a few that are unpublished or that need 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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