[Bf-docboard] wiki scrum #1
Kesten Broughton
solarmobiletrailers at gmail.com
Thu Sep 6 07:35:21 CEST 2012
Hi all,
Here are the assignments for week 1. If you're not named and want to join
in the fun, pick a few unclaimed ones from our doc-board contribs or from
the hitlist below, or browse the reviews
page<http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Wiki_Tasks/Review_2.6_Manual>.
Let's try to get as many short reviews done as possible by the next scrum:
sunday.
Get started with the Writer guide:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Guides/Writer_Guide
If you make changes to a pages make sure you check the “follow this page”
checkbox available when you submit your edits to keep informed about
changes to that page.
Be sure you've read the Style
Guidelines<http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Guides/Style_Guide>and
are familiar with
templates <http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Guides/Templates> for
formatting. Your technical writing skills will be a nice addition to this
team.
Also, the bottom right hand corner has two useful clicks.The Wiki tab to
pop-up a menu for file uploads and such. The other takes you to Wiki-meta
where you can learn more about wiki markup.
bf-docboard is a good place to post any troubles you have with wiki
markup, or with the new process. I've also added a discussion page to the
writer guide at top for tips n tricks and troubleshooting the review
process.
If your assignment is from the review page below, note that you can
compare with previous versions like 2.4 by clicking the tab at the top
center of the page. If you want to select your own, let me know and i'll
put yours back into the hitlist hopper.
To kickstart things we will choose assignments from those who have posted
recent (this week) requests for review to bf-docboard (apologies if i've
missed you) + a few from the reviews
page<http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Wiki_Tasks/Review_2.6_Manual>.
We currently suggest that you do your review in the Discussion tab for the
assigned page and notify here when complete. If you click on the Discussion
tab and the page doesn't exist, just click the Edit tab and start typing to
create it.
Author: amdbcg
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Special:Contributions/Scorpion
assigned to: ?
Author: wim
*Bevel Modifier*
Units page (missing in the documentation):
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Rayek/Doc:2.6/Manual/Interface/Units
assigned to: ?
Edited Bevel modifier page (fluffy language removed, grammar mistakes
removed, rewritten for the most part,)
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Rayek/Doc:2.6/Manual/Modifiers/Generate/Bevel
assinged to: meta-androcto
Author: sascha (snowleopord)
*Marerial/Strands*
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Sascha_Uncia/Doc:2.6/Manual/Materials/Properties/Strands
assigned to: wim
Particle Mode
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Sascha_Uncia/Doc:2.6/Manual/Physics/Particles/Mode
assigned to: kestion
Author: Fade
*Many on *
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Wiki_Tasks/Review_2.6_Manual
Fade: can you point to some particular pages you have authored so we can
pick of a few.
*Note that the review page is not editable. To register a page on it you
have to add something like the following near the top of the page: (click
on a reviewed page when logged in and select “edit” tab)*
{{review
|text=
; wrong place
: In 2.4 this page is here Manual/3D interaction/Navigating/3D View
Options|fixes=[[User:Fade/Doc:2.6/Manual/3D_interaction/Navigating/3D_View_Options|X]]
}}
Other hit-list items from reviews page:
Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Output/Video<http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Output/Video>
Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Bake<http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Bake>
Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles<http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles>
Doc:2.6/Manual/Composite Nodes/Node
Controls<http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Composite_Nodes/Node_Controls>
Doc:2.6/Manual/Sequencer<http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Sequencer>
Doc:2.6/Manual/Sequencer/Audio<http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Sequencer/Audio>
Doc:2.6/Manual/Extensions/Plugins/Texture<http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Extensions/Plugins/Texture>
Doc:2.6/Manual/Extensions/Python/Example<http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Extensions/Python/Example>-
is this a copy of the next?
Doc:2.6/Manual/Extensions/Python/Intro to
Python/Examples<http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Extensions/Python/Intro_to_Python/Examples>
Doc:2.6/Manual/Game
Engine/Android<http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Game_Engine/Android>
I'll put in a request to review some release notes of recent contributions
as well. Coders often don't want to waste time prettifying their notes, and
it's a good way to dig deep into a topic with the assistance of an expert.
----------------------
Reviewer Assignments:
meta-androcto:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Rayek/Doc:2.6/Manual/Modifiers/Generate/Bevel
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Extensions/Python/Add-Ons
fsiddi:
Is there any way to get the number of hits for a page? We could base our
hitlist on popularity if so.
Doc:2.6/Manual/3D interaction/Transform
Control/Snap<http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/3D_interaction/Transform_Control/Snap>
hjaarnio
Doc:2.6/Manual/3D
interaction/Navigating<http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/3D_interaction/Navigating>-
find out how to put it in the proper location
Doc:2.6/Manual/3D interaction/Navigating/3D
View<http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/3D_interaction/Navigating/3D_View>upload
new screenshots (bottom right hand corner when you are logged in
gives Wiki-> Upload file option)
greylica
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Data_System/Files/Import/COLLADA
sculptorJim
Doc:2.6/Manual/3D
interaction/Transformations/Advanced<http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/3D_interaction/Transformations/Advanced>
amdbcg
Doc:2.6/Manual/3D
interaction/Transformations/Basics/Rotate<http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/3D_interaction/Transformations/Basics/Rotate>add
link to transform control
Doc:2.6/Manual/Render<http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render>get
at least one image!
kestion
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Sascha_Uncia/Doc:2.6/Manual/Physics/Particles/Mode
+ meta reviews
brecht
review other's reviews
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Extra reading:
We're not doing proper scrums yet, but if you'd like to see a nice 7 minute
video on agile scrumming:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYajjGi5-qM
Or if you prefer reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(development)#Roles .
-------------------------------------- Fin -------------------------------
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Kesten Broughton <
solarmobiletrailers at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We had a good meeting on IRC #blenderwiki today. Brecht posted the log
> earlier.
> Next scrum will be Sunday morning/afternoon at the close of #blendercoders
> scrum (10 am CST?).
>
> First of all, a big thanks to the old guard of reviewers for getting a lot
> of the required infrastructure and procedures developed. I hope there is
> no perception that we are undermining those efforts. What we are here to
> do is come up with a workable temporary solution while we are in a
> situation of a large backlog of un-reviewed contributions and no
> experienced reviewers.
>
> We're not going to fix all problems at once. Today's scrum was just to
> set some 1-week goals to get the ball rolling.
>
> *We will be putting out a hit-list to docboard and blenderartists of a
> fraction of the un-reviewed pages each week. First one will be published
> tomorrow for us to devour.*
> Post a link to your un-reviewed contribution to have it added to the
> hopper.
>
> Distilled from the IRC chat is a new trial procedure for contributing and
> reviewing:
>
> (a) small changes are allowed by anyone
> (b) bigger changes are allowed when reviewed by one other wiki contributor
> (admin or not)
> b.1 New contributors/reviewers can start by creating an account.
> b.2 Terry Wallwork will hand-approve new accounts to avoid spam
> b.3 For big changes, a small fraction of pages can be reviewed to ensure
> basic style compliance.
> The rest of the pages can be pushed to the manual with a box saying
> "This page has not been reviewed. Please help us make it better. Do not
> use this page to copy style for new pages."
> with a link to style guide and how to get involved / in touch.
> b.4 If not admin, reviewer should at least have recently reviewed Style
> Guidelines <http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Guides/Style_Guide>
> and are familiar with templates<http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Guides/Templates>for formatting. We will try to have everyone's first review
> re-reviewed to ensure consistency.
> b.5 Reviewers can use the Discussion tab to post review comments. Post
> to docboard when your review is done for re-review :)
> b.6 We are going to try and organize a couple of week-long review-sprints
> to clear out the backlog. If we aren't making good progress by end of
> sept, then we'll have to open the doors to push live according to b.3.
> Changes can be reverted through the History tab available when you are
> logged in.
> (c) a few people pledge to look at recent changes and answer questions on
> bf-docdoard
> c.1 We'd like to work towards having head reviewers for each section to
> keep the workloads light. However, it's not required.
> So far we have Jim doing BGE, meta-androcto doing addons, brecht and
> myself at large. We need at least another 4 core reviewers willing to
> contrib 2 hrs/wk at first to make this fly.
>
> *
> Optional Reading:*
>
> Fweeb mentioned that in addition to the style guide, we should have some
> templates of best practices to further promote a solid look-and-feel.
> The current style-guide gives the form. This new guide might be more
> focused on content, pedagogy etc. I'd like to see a discussion on this get
> distilled and added as a link to the style-guide. Some general suggestions
> I'd make:
>
> Use action phrases. Assume the user is following along with blender.
> Give activities that can be checked for results when possible.
>
> Get to the punchline as quickly as possible, with a picture or animation
> <http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/File:Animated_editing_particles_in_particle_mode.gif>
> Show what the user will be able to do. Then go through the steps to get
> there.
>
> Aim your page at a beginner level. This is especially important if you
> want your work reviewed quickly. If you provide procedures with high level
> descriptions of how to do things without following it with the sequence of
> UI steps to get there, your reviewer may get stuck or give up. Please
> provide a link to another part of the manual if it exists or supply the
> steps in detail yourself.
>
>
> --
>
> Kesten Broughton
> President and Technology Director,
> Solar Mobile Trailers
> kesten at solarmobiletrailers.com
> www.sunfarmkitchens.ca <http://www.sunfarmkitchens.ca>
> 512 701 4209
>
>
--
Kesten Broughton
President and Technology Director,
Solar Mobile Trailers
kesten at solarmobiletrailers.com
www.sunfarmkitchens.ca <http://www.sunfarmkitchens.ca>
512 701 4209
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