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<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Hi all,</p><p style="margin-bottom:0in">Many production houses still use
blender 2.49 as it is the most stable and well documented version of
blender. That is, they are willing to give up all the fancy new
gadgets of blender 2.6x for good documentation. We've got hundreds
of thousands of blender users (and wannabe users) out there dying for
better documentation. <br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in">So...Let's get er done.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Next wiki scrum on IRC channel #blenderwiki is Sunday, 1700 CEST (1500
UTC). Please submit your review (by posting a link to it on this list) or give a status update before or during the IRC chat. You should have contacted the author of the page and be in discussion about the review. If the author can't be contacted, feel free to make the changes to the assigned page yourself.<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in"><b>Wiki-Admin:</b> Ton has named 3 of 5 positions to our mini-board. Any other nominations or volunteers to join?</p><p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><b>About reviewing pages where you
aren't an expert on content.</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">This isn't necessarily a bad thing.
99% of the readers of this page will also not be an expert. In fact,
it may be preferable. Of course, you can't be expected to catch
errors for incompleteness, but you should be on the lookout for
conformance to existing wiki style, and the ease with which any
instructions can be followed.
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in">*Would a picture be helpful/necessary</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">*Are there missing qualifiers to
instructions:
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"> **check if it works in Edit and Object
modes, Game Engine and Render Engine settings</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">* Is the visual layout well organized
into headers, sections and subsections (using ==, ** and ##'s etc)<br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">* Are there any specific issues to
platform (mac/windows/linux) that need to be flagged</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">* Have they followed the <a href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Guides/Style_Guide">wiki styleguide</a> regarding button templates, images</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">(note my wiki-markup use of black
bullets '*' and white-circle sub-bullets '**' here :)</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in">The review doesn't have to leave the
page perfect, just like wikipedia, we should welcome improvements
with something like</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in">****************"Welcome Edits from
Public" Box**********************</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">If you are confident about a change to
this page being made, go ahead. If you are less sure, make your
suggestions in the discussion page. Either way, someone will be
alerted so your changes and they can be reverted or improved as
necessary. To keep an eye on this page yourself, make sure you mark
the checkbox at by the “submit” button after editing.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in">For the sprints, don't worry about
major issues like weather or not content should be split into two
pages or other structural issues. Log it somewhere, either on the
associated Discussion page or on the reviews page (by adding the
{{review..}} to the top of the page. We really just need a quick
pass/fail.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">If you are having any troubles with
your assignment, please post here.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in">If the page has a 2.4 or otherwise
outdated version <b>and</b> a newly revised version, your review is
of the new version. Feel free, however, to make comparisons to the
older page and comment on how the new is improved or deficient
relative to the old.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><b>A note on the sprint schedule</b>:
I'm going to suggest that we try releasing new sprint challenges
every 4ish days to start (on wednesdays and sundays) for those who
are chomping at the bit. If you prefer a weekly cycle, then just
commit to that, and consider the next sprint as a preview until you
are ready to tackle it. To summarize, sprints will be released on a
4 day schedule, but reviewers can execute on either a 4 day or 7 day
schedule.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><b>Points!</b> I forgot to say, we
will eventually have a proper point system like on stackoverflow and
other sites. An assignment is 50 points on the 1 week schedule, 60
points for 4 day completion.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><b>Assignment #1 Bonus: Embrace
Blenderartists.org (10 points)</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Do some searching on <a href="http://blenderartists.org">blenderartists.org</a>
for your review topics. You can restrict a google search to a
specific site by including site:<a href="http://blenderartists.org">blenderartists.org</a> plus your search
terms. You should notice that all results are then from
<a href="http://blenderartists.org">blenderartists.org</a>. For example, if i search
“site:<a href="http://blenderartists.org">blenderartists.org</a> particles” I get a whole page of good
hits for threads like <a href="http://blenderartists.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?42-Particles-and-Simulations">this</a>
. You can glean from the posts, what issues are important to users
and what the major stumbling blocks are. If your review is for a new
page or contains major changes, comment on the thread with a link to
it in the post as soon as your reviewed page is moved to the 2.6
wiki.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><b>Sprint #2 Assignment : Tackling
stubs for non-existing pages</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Some pages don't exist yet (they either
existed in 2.4 and haven't been ported, or were added by developers
as stubs for new features. What a pain for users to search for a
topic and click on a result that says “sorry, this page doesn't
exist”. Sprint #2 will tackle stubs. Assignments released tomorrow.</p>
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see you tommorow on IRC<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><br>Kesten Broughton<br>President and Technology Director, <br>Solar Mobile Trailers<br><a href="http://www.sunfarmkitchens.ca" target="_blank">kesten@solarmobiletrailers.com<br>
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