Going forwards with userdoc

[rho]

Please sit down and take out your paper bags to breathe into before reading any further. You just might need them.

It's April 2 today, which means that we have exactly four weeks until open beta and four weeks to get our FAQs and guides into a state suitable for open beta consumption. There are already a lot of people asking questions, and I'm seeing our FAQs getting linked to in the wild, so I want to try to make sure we have some awesome documentation before open beta launch.

Ideally, I'd like to try to get everything finished up at least a week in advance (ie, by the 23rd) to give us time for proof reading, testing, checking for accessibility and so on. If we aim to finish early, that also gives us a little bit of wiggle room for when things inevitably run over a little. This gives us three weeks.

I'd appreciate it if everyone on the userdoc team (those of you writing FAQs and guides) could either comment here or email me to let me know what you're working on, how you're getting on with it, whether you're going to be able to finish on time or whether you'll need help, and whether you'll be able to take on additional tasks after you've finished what you're doing at the moment.

If you al can do that for me, that will let me plan out our final push to the finish line.

Comments

[ursamajor]

Haie! Have gotten a bit behind because of overcommitment outside-of-DW, but I've set aside this weekend for a big docs push and hope to have good drafts of FAQs by this coming Monday (the, um ... 6th?). Have not gotten started on the Community Management guide yet, and I know that's a Priority; I'll let you know where I'm at with it come Monday (intended to be part of the docs push for this weekend, but because it's larger I know it'll have to go through more review and rearranging). :)

[rho]

Wait. According to my records, mac was assigned the communities guide and you were going to be doing a guide about differences between LJ and DW. Is that not right?

[ursamajor]

I will check in with mac - we know that those were the two guides we would be doing, but weren't sure who would be doing which guide.

[batdina]

I have to deal with Passover this coming week, so I'm hoping to have stuff to you shortly after that, say around the 20th or so? will that work for your schedule?

[rho]

That would be great, yes. Obviously, Passover should take priority over Dreamwidth!

[ivorygates]

I'm, um, doing things with translation strings, and these are a few of my favorite things....

[rho]

Do you think there's any chance you could take on an extra category or two as well? If not then there's no problem, but if you'll have time, there's plenty of other things I could assign to you!

[rho]

You want to take on the feeds category as well?

[rho]

I was hoping that you'd say that. :D

I also hope you realise what it means that I'm trusting you to write about feeds in Dreamwidth documentation. This is as close as it comes for me to letting you look after my babies, you know?

[forthwritten]

I've been in India but I'm going to work on FAQs in the early part of next week and the week after. I hope to get it done on time but would appreciate the occasional poke.

[liv]

My situation: my main computer with all my DW stuff on it is dying, and it's also Pesach tomorrow and I am leading two seders, and on top of that my bf has been visiting the past week. So I haven't touched DW for about 10 days, and all kinds of exciting things have happened while I was out of the loop, but I'm hoping to come back Friday. Miss you guys terribly!