Benefits: Give our doc writer(s) a better idea where to focus concentration Requirements: Computer running GNOME default

Our documentation is pretty out-of-date in a lot of areas. This task would see the student reading through several GNOME manuals. For each item / description / idea in the manual, ensure it is still valid (i.e. for keyboard shortcuts, ensure the key-sequence is still valid) and report bugs when they discover problems. Bonus marks for finding the updated sequence / feature etc.

This task is about the manuals of the following applications: Configuration Editor, GNOME Power Manager, GNOME Terminal, System Log Viewer, System Monitor

Links: Online Manuals: http://library.gnome.org/users/

I'll take this task.

Welcome on board!

The time limit for this task is one week. If you have any question, just ask :-) We'll contact you to send you the list of mails.

So do you want me to submit a bug for each manual, for each issue, or one including all the problems I find?

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I don't have a laptop with gnome installed, so it might be difficult to complete the power manager manual review. However, I can submit the gconf changes, etc. just fine.

If there are several bugs that relate to each other, it would be better to group them together as 1 bug (i.e. "all the keyboard shortcuts are wrong in this manual"), but if the bugs are distinct and separate, it would be better to file separate bugs for them.

For the GNOME Power Manager, you're plan sounds reasonable and sufficient for the task.

OK, thanks. I'll start filing bugs.

Oof, the system monitor is way out of date. Do you want me to try to write the stuff to be added or is that to be left to the doc writers? Should I just outline what needs to be added?

Patrick: if you can write the missing pieces, that'd be fantastic! (although the minimum requirement is probably only an outline)

I have completed the review of all the manuals and submitted all the bugs. Anything else you need me to do? You can search bugzilla for all the bugs I have submitted, and I did rewrite large parts of the system-monitor docs and submitted a patch to Bugzilla. Thank you for all the help.

see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/describeuser.cgi?login=patrick.hulin AT gmail.com (you must be logged in to gnome bugzilla to view the page) for the 12 filed bug reports.

patrick, very good work. thanks a lot!

closing this ticket as "completed", guess that vuntz won't contradict :)

Good job!