From: Paul V. <pa...@vi...> - 2004-05-20 22:23:46
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Hello Mike, > I live and work in the UK as a technical project manager. I've been > known to produce the odd bit of technical documentation (very odd > some of it) and would like to contribute to the Firebird project. Great! We don't have a lot of docwriters here, and the ones we do have don't have a lot of spare time, so every helping hand is welcome. > At the moment I'm plodding my way through the existing > documentation, trying to get an understanding of and a feel for the > extent of what is already there. I would be very open to suggestions > or requests for assistance in particular areas. Have you already seen this page, and the stuff it links to? http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=devel&sub=doc In principle you can decide for yourself what you want to contribute, as long as it isn't already there. And we'd really like you to make your contributions in DocBook XML format - but maybe you already knew that. Right now I'm a bit annoyed (mainly with myself) because there hasn't been any progress in the last few months. I want to work on an API Reference (starting with the functions that differ from InterBase's) but the framework is only half ready. Someone else is working on a glossary (linked to a reserved words list; framework is complete) and yet another person is preparing an SQL and UDF reference. These are all documents that can be worked on on a per-entry basis, which means several persons can work on them without getting in each other's way. If you want to step into one of these, I'm sure that can be arranged. But... it's *your* time and effort, so if you have other ideas - or maybe dreams of some fantastic in-depth technical monster doc - please feel free to set that up. As long as it's got fiery wings! :-) Greetings, nice to have you on board! Paul Vinkenoog |