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 (kde-doc-english AT kde.org)
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: (kde-quality AT kde.org)
. 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
-> menu item for
the maintainer. If you can't find a maintainer, ask on
(kde-doc-english AT kde.org)
or
(kde-devel AT kde.org)
. 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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