lead writer - you?

[Paul W. Frields]

On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 20:44 -0400, Oisin Feeley wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:09:51 -0400, "David Nalley"
> <david.nalley at fedoraproject.org> said:
> > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:35 PM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade <kwade at redhat.com>
> > wrote:
> > > We could use someone to take full responsibility for the start to
> > > publish for each of these guides, ongoing for now and possibly future
> > > releases:
> > >
> > > * Release Notes
> > > * Installation Guide
> > > * Packaging Guide
> > > * User Guide
> > >
> > > Interested?  Want to hear more?
> > >
> > 
> > So the pieces I see as missing from this posting are:
> > 
> > What are the responsibilities of a lead writer (hopefully a more
> > verbose explanation than 'everything')
> > What are the qualifications for a lead writer?
> > What is the typical time investment for a lead writer?
> > What tools are used and which of those need to be known ahead of time?
> 
> I'd find this useful too. I am interested in all except the Packaging
> Guide, but although I have some DocBook experience I'd like to have a
> better idea of what the task is before I jump in.

Since there are people popping up to take these responsibilities, it's
important to lay out answers to these questions.  That will help us keep
momentum going even during a lull in release notes progress, which I
realize has been on everyone's minds the past week or so.

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