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2009-10-04 Team Meeting

We will hold a team meeting on Sunday, 2009-10-04 at 17:00 UTC. (See local time.) The meeting will be held on IRC on the #docs channel on irc.gnome.org. See the contact page for more information about joining us on IRC.

Potential topics:

• GNOME 3.0 next steps (GNOME User Guide, Accessibility Guide)
• Other documents to be potentially ported to Mallard during the 2.30 cycle
• Mallard updates
• Boston Summit hacking

Meeting Minutes

Docs Meeting Minutes 04OCT09

1. Phil to email Shaun and the mailing list regarding feedback that Mallard is too tied to Yelp as a help browser and other projects were reluctant to use Mallard
   • Shaun working on libyelp, a library that can be used to create a help browser for other desktop environments
   • Work is being done in the yelp-3-0 branch in the Yelp repository in GNOME git
   • Need to build a community around Mallard that makes it easier for all to use it, not just GNOME

2. ProjectMallard.org is now up and running using Drupal as a CMS. Team to discuss ideas of what content to host on the website.

   • Repository of customizations and extensions for Mallard
   • Explain what Mallard is
   • Example documentation such as Phil's mouse docs
   • DTD
3. How can downstream distributions override a topic in a help file?
   • Shaun dicussed 3 options:
     • patch it
     • we get conditional processing, and we have the distro versions all in the upstream topic
     • put the distro version somewhere higher in the help path
     • Recommendation is #3 with path based solutions
4. Shaun to meet with Willie Walker at the Boston Summit to discuss a11y documentation