On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 02:49 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
1) For new specs going forward, introduce a mandatory sign-off from
the documentation team. It wouldn't take more than say 10 minutes for
every review and anyone interested could do it even as a one off
process.
I'm really not crazy about this. I understand what you're trying to
accomplish, but our review process is already painfully slow.
I'd rather let the documentation team go through after the fact and
check the description (and fix-up, if necessary).
Ideally, the workflow would be:
1. New package passes review. Package goes into CVS.
2. Translatable strings (Summary, Review, etc, etc) get emailed to the
doc team/put into some kind of queue.
3. Translation team checks english for correctness, makes a correction
[using some sort of tool]
4. Translation team translates strings into all languages handled by the
team.
5. When all langs are ready, task is marked complete, committed to all
branches in CVS.
6. Maintainer is notified that translations/corrections are done for
that package. Package picks up changes on next rebuild.