Looking forward/backward
Before January flees us and, in honor of the month of Janus (the Roman god of doors and gates), who had two faces, one to look forward and one to look backward, I thought I should pause a moment to reflect on what we've done and anticipate what we want to do in OpenSolaris docs.
- Looking backward
- Published docs in specific support of the 2008.11 release.
- All documents open sourced
- New docs - Automated Installer Guide, COMSTAR Administration Guide, Distribution Constructor Guide, Image Packaging System Guide, Media Management System Administration Guide, System Administration Guide, Managing Boot Environment
- Great public review of GSG and Device Driver doc in blog: See link here
- Made initial foray into wiki authoring/publishing.
Includes working out...
- Licensing strategy for wiki docs.
- "Release support" snapshot strategy for wiki docs. (Although we had to jump through hoops to execute snapshot strategy.)
- Made navigational and organizational changes to docs community web site. Based on user analysis and community input,attempting to focus on community activity first.
- Supported 2 Student Pack (A.K.A. BTSK or back-to-school kit) releases (one complete, one in progress).
- Community activity
- Opened bi-weekly docs integration meeting to community participation. While participation has been modest, intent is to be transparent.
- Agenda and minutes shared with community.
- Stellar participation from Rainer Heilke and Mark Brundage to work through the tool chain to create PDF tarball of open sourced docs.
- Work to refine and re-baseline metrics on community activity.
- Supported mini-book of Getting Started material -- Assembled content from multiple sources.
- Published docs in specific support of the 2008.11 release.
- Looking Forward...
- Grow community population.
- Grow community contributions.
- Assess / prototype OpenSolaris xwiki.
- Better up-front planning for secondary deliveries (e.g, mini book)
- Continue to drive/evolve Solaris/OpenSolaris information strategy vis-a-vis OpenSolaris marketing strategy.
- Identify tools needs to support more automation.
