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We agreed on the mailing list that Xen Document days will be held the '''last Monday of each month''', starting from Feb. If the date clashes with say a major Xen event or a holiday, we will try and find an alternative date. |
We agreed on the mailing list that Xen Document days will be held the '''last Monday of each month''', starting from Feb. If the date clashes with say a major Xen event or a holiday, we will try and find an alternative date. |
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* January 28, 2013 |
* January 28, 2013 |
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* February 25, 2013 |
* February 25, 2013 |
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* March 25, 2013 |
* March 25, 2013 |
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| + | * September 30, 2013 |
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| + | * November 25, 2013 |
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| + | * December 16, 2013 (earlier due to XMas) |
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== Extra Days == |
== Extra Days == |
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Revision as of 11:59, 17 January 2013
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What is a Xen Document Day?
Xen document days are all day IRC events, facilitated by members of the Xen community. The purpose of Xen Document Days is to
- Improve user documentation
- Improve developer documentation, including the creation of man pages, etc.
- Improve and maintaining the wiki: this means fixing important pages, retiring old ones, help identify what is and isn’t important, write new pages, etc.
How Does it Work?
- Join us on IRC: freenode channel #xendocs
- Tell people what you intend to work on (to avoid doing something somebody else is already working on)
- Fix some documentation
- Help others
- And above all: have fun!
Stats
- July 2012: We changed approximately 5K words in more than 100 changesets on the wiki and much more in xen-unstable (see here)
- June 2012: Thank you for all the contributions. On the Xen wiki we changed approximately 11K words in more than 200 changesets. More details here.
Lessons learned:
- More up-front coordination on the mailing list a week before the document day helps
Proposed dates for 2013
We agreed on the mailing list that Xen Document days will be held the last Monday of each month, starting from Feb. If the date clashes with say a major Xen event or a holiday, we will try and find an alternative date.
This means the 2013 dates are:
- January 28, 2013
- February 25, 2013
- March 25, 2013
- April 29, 2013
- May 27, 2013
- June 24, 2013
- July 29, 2013
- August 26, 2013
- September 30, 2013
- October 28, 2013
- November 25, 2013
- December 16, 2013 (earlier due to XMas)
Extra Days
Some community members indicated that they would like an extra doc day on a public holiday or weekend. I am looking for proposed dates. Please add dates below and sign up besides it. If we get more than 5 people signed up, we should hold a day on a weekend.
