Howdy,Guess what, we accomplish yet another milestone- we have now got
250 community-contributed documents!
It's been 10 days since
NetBeans Official Birthday (October 26, 2008) and today, we have finally made it. So, we acknowledge our dearest contributors for their time and support. Thank you, thank you so much for contributing!
Reloading DocumentationAs a result of a discussion that took place few weeks back on our mailing lists. Now, it's the right time to announce some major developments that were taking place under the hood for the common good.
Firstly,Have a look at the Main contribution list at Community Docs;
http://wiki.netbeans.org/CommunityDocs_ContributionsNow, as you will note change in color of table headers, that's something new I discovered while exploring
wiki.netbeans.org! They are actually sortable headers, you click any header and see it live. Its cool :-) Another thing to notice, the
category mentioned in each row is
click-able either pointing to
Developer FAQs or newly created
sub-level wikis..
Sub-level wikis..
Currently, community can look for
tutorials,
tips and tricks,
screencasts and
articles. Also, there are localized wikis (Spanish, German) being made in parallel to these English ones!
Consequences..So, what would happen now, is that when you contribute a documentation, it gets first listed into the Main list as pointed out earlier. Also, the category to which it belongs to will be converted into a hyperlink, so as to point to the category-specific wiki listing several documentations falling under that category. Also, this makes it easier to locate community-contributed docs for specific details, just mentioned.
For instance,Let's say there's a user who's new to NetBeans wants a tutorial/guide to know how to install NetBeans on Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.. We can direct him to the following wiki-page;
http://wiki.netbeans.org/NBCDTutorials and then, go to "
Installation" section from
Table of Contents.
In short, go to-
http://wiki.netbeans.org/NBCDTutorials#section-NBCDTutorials-InstallationHow simple it becomes to actually find community contributed documentation :-)
Secondly,We have reached a point where we can have the NetBeans Community Docs project in localized languages. So, we have setup the Community Docs in
German and
Spanish. These initiatives have been driven by our
evangelists,
Kristian and
Aristides.
Also, in the respective localized setups, they have created localized guides for "
Getting Started with NetBeans Docs" and "
Tutorial template", so as the Spanish and German users can quickly get started with contributing documentations.
Thirdly,Each and every table present in
top-level and various
sub-level wikis (we would now be maintaining) would have sortable headers.
Finally,The
Community Docs Wiki, would continue to aggregate localized and English wikis, however Spanish and German would only aggregate the respective localized docs.
Note- data would first go into the Main list, then only rest parallel wikis and sub-level wikis would be updated..
Hope this helps!
