Teamwork

The GDP team is a valuable resource for any documentation author. GDP members can answer most questions documentation authors have during the course of their work. It is also important to make sure you are not duplicating work of other GDP members by sending an email to <gnome-doc-list@gnome.org> and verify no one is working on the documentation for the application you are working on. It is also a good idea to send an email to the application's maintainer so the maintainer knows you want to work on the documentation for their program. The best way to get in touch with GDP members is on the #docs IRC channel at irc.gnome.org or else by emailing the http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list/.

After an author has finished a document (or even a draft version of the document), it is a good idea to ask a member of the GDP team to read the document, checking it for grammar, proper DocBook markup, and clarity. One may typically find another author to do this by either asking on the #docs IRC channel at irc.gnome.org or by emailing the http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list/.

Writing documentation typically involves a certain amount of interaction with the developers of GNOME or the application which is being documented. Often a document author will need to ask the developer technical questions during the course of writing a document. After the document is finished, it is a good idea to ask the developer to read the document to make sure it is technically correct. The documentation author should also make sure that the application author correctly binds and packages the documentation with the application.