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We are looking for volunteers in the following roles:
Writers / Authors
- to review sources of information for the topic
- select information to be incorporated
- to write content
- move documentation sources to document attic
Reviewers / Proofreaders
- toreview documents written by Authors
- check for grammar and spelling mistakes
- confirm that content is clear to understand
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- liaise with authors
Editors
- organise documents into the correct locations
- manage structure of overall documents
- test documents and create patch files
- update patch files into the trunk
NOTE: If you author an document, then you cannot be the proofreader
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Mentors
- help documentation contributors
- provide general background OFBiz help
- provide examples documents
- help contributors test their documentation
Team Members
The list below is the list of people who are taking part in the OFBiz documentation effort. Please add your details below if you would like to volunteer to help
Some people have volunteered to be mentors to other team members. If you would like a mentor, then please feel to approach any of the mentor volunteers.
Name | Confluence Id | Location / Timezone | In Skype Group | Willing to be a Mentor | Documentation Role | Mentor |
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Sharan Foga | Sharan Foga | Prague, UTC+1 | Yes | Yes | Author, Proofreader, Editor | |
Olivier Heintz | Olivier Heintz | France, UTC+1 | Yes | Yes?Author | ||
Deepak Nigam | Deepak Nigam | |||||
Tim Boyden | Timothy Boyden | Boston, UTC-54 | Yes | Author, Proofreader | ||
Craig Parker | Craig Bachelor | EST (NY time), which is -5:00 GMT I think.Maine, UTC-5 | Yes | Sharan Foga | ||
Arthur Marquez | ||||||
Swapnil M Mane | Swapnil Mane | India, UTC+5.5 | Yes | Yes | Author, Proofreader, Editor | |
Michael Brohl | Michael Brohl | Germany, UTC+1 | Yes | Yes | Author, Proofreader, Editor | |
Pranay Pandey | Pranay Pandey | India, UTC+5.5 | Yes | |||
Aditya Sharma | Aditya Sharma | |||||
Dennis Balkir | Dennis Balkir | Germany, UTC+1 | ||||
Akash Jain | Akash Jain | India, UTC+5.5 | Yes | |||
Tarun Thakur | Tarun Singh Thakur | Yes | ||||
Piotr Walesiak | ||||||
Giulio Speri | Giulio Speri | Italy, UTC+1 | ||||
Taher Alkhateeb | Taher Alkhateeb | Kuwait, UTC +3 | Yes | Technical Advice | ||
Vikram Gupta | Vikram Gupta | Durban, SA, UTC+2 | ||||
Mauricio Tavares | UTC+1 | |||||
Badar Ali | Badar Ali | Yes | Swapnil Mane | |||
Allan Zarsuela | Allan Zarsuela | UAE, UTC+4 | Yes | Author, Proofreader | Sharan Foga | |
Rebecca Johnson | ||||||
Benjamin Jugl | Benjamin Jugl | Germany, UTC+1 | ||||
Daniel Mejia |
Reference Information
Mentors Roles and Responsibilities
Highlight main tasks that mentors can help with
Documentation Reference for Contributors
What tools will they need to install and use
What process will they need to follow?
What templates will they need to use?
Spanish Translation, Author | Sharan Foga | |||||
Sanjay Yadav | Sanjay Yadav | India, UTC+5.5 | QA Advice | Author, Proofreader, Editor | ||
Wolfgang Rauchholz | wp.rauchholz | Barcelona, Spain, UTC +2 | No | Need a mentor |
Documentation Example : Writing Our First Guide Together
To get started we will be collaborating on writing the Human Resources guide together.Where are examples of what the documentation should look like?
Example structure for adoc files
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- Create one main umbrella JIRA per module (eg Human Resources Guide JIRA Task List
)Jira server ASF JIRA serverId 5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b key OFBIZ-10251 - Create a JIRA for each of the individual documents that need to be written (e.g one for resumes.adoc, and another for human-resources-intro.adoc)
- JIRAs for individual documents will include the name of the document and either an template (or a link to a template) to use for the document
- Link the individual JIRAs as sub tasks to the main umbrella JIRA
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- A JIRA is available to be picked up and worked on if it does not have anyone assigned to it
- To pick up and start working on a JIRA, assign yourself to a JIRA that that do not have anyone assigned
- Click the "Start Progress" button and keep it like that as long as you are working on the task. This to let know others that you are actively working on the issue. Possibly click the "Stop Progress" button if you are pausing for this task. You may even unassign yourself if it's for a long period.
Writing the Documentation
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- Editors will then take the text file copy it into a working version of the Trunk
- They will copy the text file into the correct location in the documentation tree
- They will build the documentation and check that it the document appears correctly in the generated guideguide (NOTE Maybe include a separate sub section here on the commands to use for building and the location of the generated documents: Use command ./gradlew generateOfbizDocumentation to generate the PDF and HTML files)
- They will create a patch file for the documentation and attach it to the individual JIRA (NOTE: This means that the individual JIRA will contain the original text file received from the writer and also a patch file with the intergrated written text)
- They will change the status that the ticket has been tested and is ready to be committed to the Trunk
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- Editors that are committers will look for tickets that are ready to be committted and commit them into the trunk
- They will send notifications to the writers and reviewers that the document has been uploaded
- Editors will close the individual issue
Document Guidelines
Please refer to https://asciidoctor.org/docs/asciidoc-recommended-practices/
Formatting
- Each .adoc file must contain the Apache license header (put between "//// license... ////")
- Recommendation say one sentence per line but are currently doing limiting lines to approx 80 characters... Not sure if are at the one sentence per line stage yet?
- Filenames will be in lower case and extension will be .adoc
- Section titles will use asymmetric atx style (e.g == This is an example of an Asymetric Section Title)
- When including another file using the 'include' directive, please ensure that there is a blank line between each include line (NOTE: From Taher - if we stack directives on top of each other asciidoctor might get confused especially if the headers in the different documents are a different levels)
Naming
We will be implementing a consistent naming standard for the documentation content files.
- Each guide will be named after the component / moduel name (e.g. humanres.adoc, accounting.adoc, manufacturing.adoc, party.adoc etc).
- Lower level files that are in the include directory will include a prefix/shortname indicating the component name, separated by dashes (e.g hr-intro.adoc, hr-glossary.adoc...etc)
- Similar pages will have consistent naming. We will have several intro, glossary, FAQ, settings, security, so the naming format will be ([shortname]-intro, [shortname]-glossary, [shortname]-faq, [shortname]-settings, [shortname]-security etc.)
Example for Human Resources this will be as follows:
humanres.adoc
hr-intro.adoc
hr-employee-evaluations.adoc
hr-glossary.adoc
hr-employee-positions.adoc
hr-employees.adoc
hr-employments.adoc
hr-performance-review.adoc
hr-positions.adoc
hr-qualifications.adoc
hr-recruitment.adoc
hr-skills.adoc
hr-resumes.adoc
hr-training.adoc
hr-leave.adoc
hr-security.adoc
hr-global-settings.adoc
So for the party manager this could be :
party.adoc
party-intro.adoc (NOTE: Do we look at making the short code pty or something shorter than party????)
party-glossary.adoc
party-faq.adoc
party-settings.adoc
party-security.adoc
etc.
This could give people a guideline for the base structure and you can immediately recognize what the file contains.
JIRA Issue Task List
Human Resource Guide
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Assigning Yourself A Jira Issue
The first step in the process is looking at the list of open documentation issues / sub tasks and choosing one to work on. Once you have decided to work on an issue, please assign it to yourself. You can do this by:
Log into our OFBiz Jira issue tracker
Locate the Jira issue you want to work on (Note: Unassigned means that no one is working on it)
On the upper right hand side under the ‘People’ section you will see a link that says ‘Assign to me”
Click the ‘Assign to me’ link and the issue will be assigned to yourself
You have now assigned yourself to work on an issue.
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Initial Team Setup Tasks
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Based on the discussions the proposed high level roadmap of next steps looks like this
- Get the Proof of Concept (PoC) documentation framework written by Taher committed into the trunk
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- (Done by Taher 8th March 2018)
- Identify mentors who will be available to help less experienced documentation contributors
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- (In progress. Michael, Sharan and Olivier have indicated they are available so far)
- Use a wiki page to act as reference.
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- (Done, this page is being used as that)
- High level plan to show what is being done
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- a reference or FAQ for how to get started,
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- Details of the process that we want to follow and also a list of available mentors etc)
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- Define a Table of contents structure for each application (
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- In Progress: Initial one is Human Resources)
- Mentors will create the document structure within OFBiz (some files with data, some empty)
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- Create Jira tasks for the outstanding documentation work
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- Create some documentation and rules for 'how to write the documentation" (how to use asciidoc syntax for specifics situation, how to use asciidoc syntax for specifics situation
TASKS IN WAITING
This area is for work that the team will need to do but not yet!
Remove markdown files added to Birt in the following commit and incorporate it into the documentation framework: https://s.apache.org/eTqQ
BRAINSTORMING AREA
This area is used for adding ideas and suggestions for brainstorming. If the idea or suggestion is move into the task list then it can be deleted from here. Also remove anything that is not relevant.
We
Sample Toc
Brainstorming Ideas
How to get started with planning and organisation?
Define a table of contents of the documentation that we want to produce and use it as the document structure within OFBiz.
Define target (ordered) for documentation reader and usage (contextual help screen or function or component or "README" by component, function, process, or book or ...)
We want documents to be small and focussed on one topic (this will make it more re-usable).
We don't want to just copy and paste what we already have
We have a complete HR manual - could we use it as a first set of documents to all work on together?
We can start, in the same time as other documents , the "how to write documentation" page/section to be able to share
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how to use asciidoc syntax for specifics situation
(Comment from Sharan Foga in response to this. Once we have done an example together so that everyone knows the process and how to work, then we can split off and do parallel work. Trying to do parallel work at the start, I think will cause problems until people are confident enough to work alone)
Documentation Reference for Contributors
What tools will they need to install and use
What process will they need to follow?
What templates will they need to use?
Where are examples of what the documentation should look like?
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At the beginning this page will be more a draft than a documentation but it can be help us to see if our documentation is usable by us
Doing a small modification on showHelp view to have a header with a link a the main manual (which have links to all the other files )
We should set up a small documentation quality team which is responsible that the documentation send in by contributors is of good quality, consistent and (mostly) error free. This team should also propose the structure of the documentation and maybe add the empty .adoc files and includes to lead the way for contributors.
It could also be a good idea to track who is working on a piece of documentation to avoid double work and encourage collaboration between contributors interested in the same topic(s). I think this might be Jira with a main task containing the main "rules" of documentation and several subtasks for each topic.
I suggest to have also a process to move documentation from the Wiki to the documentation in the repository. We should make sure that we do not have different documentation in both places. If someone is working on a topic he also could search the Wiki for it and try to merge/move it where applicable. Moved/merged documentation from the Wiki should then be moved to an adoc Attic until everthing is cleared and the community agrees to remove it from the Wiki.
We should also define which contents should be in the repository and what the Wiki should contain or be linked to.
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To get started we need to focus on co-ordination, structure and organisation (we have a lot of people wanting to contribute but their efforts need to be co-ordinated
We need a visual high level plan (see example roadmap above) so that everyone can quickly see progress and main milestones
Need to define the scope of the effort (maybe do this by saying what we are not going to do??, eg. not an FAQ, not a tutorial, not a use case, not a cookbook) so will be feature documentation (i.e. describing what we have available)
Look at using JIRA as main co-ordination and tracking tool. We could look at usin a new label eg 'documentation' in conjunction with the existing components. Maybe update workflow to have a new QA status
Assumption is that the work will be done in the trunk (since 17.12 branch already created) and will be part of the 18.xx branch. Do we look at backporting to 17.12 ???
Ways to get started working together : Let's all work together on one component (suggest HR since a complete HR manual already exists. It will need review and maybe rewrite but the main content is already there. Each person can be allocated an area and be responsible for submitting a patch
Questions
How to test a process documentation, related (or not) with demo data ? (where to put source asccidoc files, how to arrive on it)
Which collaborations tools : jira, branch, github and with which rules
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How to be able to manage multi-language ? it's not a priority for ofbiz trunk but should be available on customer site (currently it's manage by content multi-language capabilities)
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Automatic translation for one file from docbook to asciidoc
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