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Minutes for Documentation Interest Group Meeting 3/7/11

Attendance / roll call

  • rsoulliere is is Robert Soulliere, Mohawk College
  • kmlussier is Kathy Lussier, MassLNC
  • sfortin is Sally Fortin, Equinox Software
  • dbs is Dan Scott from Laurentian University, on the periphery
  • jenny is Jenny Turner, PALS
  • csharp is Chris Sharp, GPLS, mostly lurking
  • jeff is Jeff Godin, TADL. Observing by happenstance.
  • bshum is Ben Shum, Bibliomation

Staff client help pages

  • Postponed for future meeting

DIG Roles Update

  • rsoulliere reported no volunteers before meeting after posting call on DIG list
  • Jenny volunteered for Reports Coordinator
  • kmlussier volunteered for OPAC/staff tasks content coordination

1.6 and 2.0 Progress Report

  • rsoulliere reported International access issues to documentation site seem to be resolved now with testers reporting that they are able to access site from all their locations
  • Many chapters have been added to 2.0 some of which were ported from 1.6 since content was the same.
  • KCLS and GPLS generously submitted documentation content for 2.0 last week and on the weekend before meeting. They have been added to documentation repository in asciidoc and DocBook XML formats.
  • More work on those to be done…
  • rsoulliere: Please review 2.0 outline and look for needed chapters or sections at http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-docs_2.0:outline#partadministration
  • rsoulliere: In particular is anyone writing documentation for the Public Access Catalog part for 2.0 which could be contributed?
  • kmlussier with check with her group regarding Public Access Catalog documentation
  • kmlussier planning to tackle the cataloging tasks this week.
  • dbs still planning to write up "why nullability matters in reports"
  • jenny has some new info on reporting sources in 2.0 and will see if anything is new at Reports Task Force Meeting

Need more policies

AsciiDoc

  • AsciiDoc was discussed as an option to use for documentation
  • Many advantages of the format were discussed.
  • dbs: pointed out that it could offer a good way of single-sourcing some documents that we want in the tarball anyway - like the README (install instructions), release notes, other text docs
  • It was clarified that AsciiDoc is not going to replace the current DocuBook format for official documentation, but simply provide a means to automate a single-sourcing of some docs

Action Item: rsoulliere will experiment more with AsciiDoc and provide more info on list.

April 4, at 2:30 PM EST is the next scheduled DIG meeting

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