[wp-docs] Your help is needed.

[Michael B]

Consider me a volunteer. I'll look into setting up openoffice on one of my 
machines. I'd prefer either the Template Tags or a themes/theme development 
section as those are the areas I'm most familiar with. I've wanted to assist 
with the codex, but for a variety of reasons, haven't, probably won't, but 
this sorta bridges that gap.



On 9/6/05, Podz <podz at tamba2.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> This is the followup to Lorelle's email to the list, and it's something
> we've discussed between us.
> 
> The goal:
> - for WP users to be able to download those parts of Codex that they
> wish to read offline.
> - for this project to be maintained in such a way as to not be dependent
> on any one person or any single location (outside of wp.org<http://wp.org>
> )
> 
> 
> The plan:
> 
> 1. Recruit a team for pdf document maintenance. A minimum of 2,
> preferably 4, people are needed.
> - each person takes on a designated range of Codex pages
> - The Codex page range would be by TOC section, such as WordPress
> Lessons, Development Documentation, About WordPress, etc.
> 
> 2. Each person would monitor the documents within their section and when
> changes are made, they will create a new PDF file.
> 
> 3. The PDF file will be uploaded to the agreed upon web space.
> - Podz will provide this. It will probably be ISP space as this is html
> only (no code support). Other web space may be considered. The people
> with access to this web space need to be well trusted and vetted and
> Podz will monitor the web space regularly.
> - The web space address will also act as a backup location should the
> main location become unavailable.
> 
> 4. At a set time, a cron script on wordpress.org <http://wordpress.org>will copy over only
> those files which have changed (date stamp being the key). This allows
> Matt to maintain the security of wp.org <http://wp.org>
> 
> 5. The download page on wordpress.org <http://wordpress.org> will show the 
> title of each file
> along with the last modified date.
> 
> 6. Should the team begin to produce the docs in any other format, the
> same procedure can be done.
> 
> 7. Anyone is free to copy the files and host them elsewhere, but
> no-one will be allowed download access to the download and backup web
> space location. (Right now the location is both known and the directory
> open. This would change. I see this as stopping others hotlinking to the
> files. I have no tracking I can use there).
> 
> 
> What's needed:
> - People.
> If you want to help and haven't got Open Office I'll burn to CD and send
> it to you.
> The more people that say Yes, the more the work is spread. It really
> isn't a difficult task.
> 
> Archiving:
> - Would have to be done manually, but I think that's doable.
> 
> Volunteers appreciated !!
> 
> P.
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