Re: Docs QA

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On 11/10/2010 05:09 PM, Jesús Franco wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 09:40:41PM +0100, Travis Whitlock wrote:
>> I would suggest attempting to have an independent reviewer.  Meaning a
>> member of the docs team that ideally has not worked on the section they are
>> reviewing.  Familiarity with a document is usually the best way to overlook
>> mistakes.
> 
> It would be a great way to letting 'shy' people like me, not brave
> enough to mess with the work done, but able to read and test some
> things and reporting some issues, actually contributing to the
> project.

Yeah.  I'm hoping this will allow more people to become involved in the
process and that the process will become yield better documentation out
the door.

> 
> I'm glad with this *huge* proposal. I'm going to take it to
> translators too, because sometimes the translators don't use
> terminology dictionaries (nor peer reviews), and leads to confussion
> when instead of using the terms specific for the matter of the
> documentation, they use generic translations, missing the sense of the
> original author.
> 
> QA for translations too!

Yeah, QA for translations are also important.  Being mono-lingual I can
only look to see if I can read any portion of a translated guide.  If I
can I know there are problems with the translation.  If I can't I know
someone has translated it and hopefully they've correctly done so.

- --Eric
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