Working With Other Documenters and Developers
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Working With Other Documenters and Developers

One important and fun part of working on TDE is the community of other developers who you work with. The people you'll work with most often as a documentation writer are the documentation team, the quality team (if you're a new contributor) and the maintainer of the application that you're working on.

The documentation team is your main resource for help with doc writing and a central point of contact to ensure that everyone's work is co-ordinated. The main ways to contact the documentation team are via the mailing list and on IRC in the fkde-docs channel on the server irc.freenode.net. If you plan to work on a particular application, please tell us, so that we can ensure that no-one else is working on it simultaneously, so that effort would be duplicated. Also, feel free to contact us with any problems or questions you might have about writing documentation. You don't need to feel like you're working entirely on your own – there are plenty of people who are able to help.

The TDE Quality Team provides more broad support. If you have any general questions about TDE development, or how documentation fits into the wider TDE environment, the Quality Team mailing list is a good place to ask: . If you're not sure whether to ask a question on the kde-quality or kde-doc-english list, just pick one and ask. Many people who read one list read the other, and you'll be pointed to the appropriate list if necessary.

Working with programmers is a little less formal. The usual reason to contact a programmer is to ask about a feature or behavior of an application that you're documenting. To find the appropriate person to contact for a particular application, look in the Help->About KApp menu item for the maintainer. If you can't find a maintainer, ask on or . If asking on the kde-devel list, mention that you're writing the documentation for that application – it helps to identify you to those reading a busy list. In general, programmers and other developers are happy to help, and willing to work with you, so don't feel afraid of asking them for information, and building up a working relationship.

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