SDK/Documentation guidelines

A set of documentation principles describing the documentation process and the different licenses for different documents.

Developer Guide process

The intention behind the Developer Guide is to sign-post the most-accurate information available to MeeGo developers. As such, it should not be added to in an ad hoc fashion or subjected to massive restructurings without community involvement. Usual MeeGo SDK community channels can be used to discuss changes.

If you notice an improvement which could be made to the Developer Guide, you have a few options:

• Fix it yourself (if it's already in the guide); let the meego-sdk mailing list know if it's anything significant (such as you removed or added a large chunk of text; fixing typos is OK and you don't need to tell anyone etc.)
• Write a new page yourself and log a request to have it added to the Developer Guide; include the title of the page in the title of the bug
• Log an enhancement request for a page to be added to the Developer Guide if you can't or won't write it yourself; be as specific as you can about the content you expect to see in it
• Log a bug if you spot a problem on a page (something wrong, something missing) and can't or won't fix it yourself; requests to remove a page, move a page out of the guide etc. can also be made this way

Bugs and enhancement requests are logged on http://bugs.meego.com/, inside the Documentation product, SDK docs component.

• Create a request for documentation
• Current open SDK docs bugs

Documentation issues should also be attached to the appropriate version of the Developer Guide (corresponding to MeeGo versions): check the version of the Developer Guide you're viewing and select the appropriate version when making your request.

Note that none of the above stops you adding new material to the wiki as you see fit: the guidelines are just there to help improve the quality of the "official" developer guides and prevent duplication of effort. If you want to create your own developer guide in the wiki, separate from the "official" guide, there is nothing to stop you doing this.

Picking up documentation tasks

Documentation bugs can be taken on by any MeeGo SDK community member. Please review the SDK Tutorial Content page when authoring new content.

Bugs are closed at the discretion of the MeeGo SDK community; for example:

• A request for a new page can be closed when a page is in place which satisifies the requirements specified in the bug.
• A request to include a new page in the Developer Guide can be closed when the page is linked from the Developer Guide table of contents.

Content categorization

See Developer guide content organization for some suggestions about how to categorise developer guide pages.

Licensing

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 is the license for the wiki. Documentation uses the same license.