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Drupal Podcast No. 45: Steven Peck on Documentation

Team Lullabot
August 25, 2007
  • Artist: Lullabot
  • Title: Drupal Podcast No. 45: Steven Peck on Documentation
  • Album: Drupal Podcast
  • Year: 2007
  • Length: 63:07 minutes (14.96 MB)
  • Format: Mono 22kHz 33Kbps (VBR)

Jeff Robbins, Angie Byron, and Addi Berry discuss recent Drupal news and interview Steven Peck, leader of the documentation team.

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Comments

Important comment on minute 26

On August 27th, 2007 Alexei Rayu (not verified) said:

A comment on 26 minutes of this podcast about why new people need to comment - I believe this is a very important thing. When I have been learning Drupal, it has been really helpful. Thanks.

Great podcast guys :)

On August 27th, 2007 Keyz (not verified) said:

Great podcast guys :) It helped me realize that though I can't code myself out of a block (*grin*), there are other ways I can help out with Drupal. I decided to join the Docs team, and hopefully I'll be able to contribute in other ways in the future as well (might even finally figure out PHP haha).

As always keep up the great work guys... every Lullabot podcast and article is a real inspiration and motivation to keep going with Drupal.

Pro Drupal Development Book

On August 31st, 2007 Anonymous (not verified) said:

I think the idea of having someone oversee and control the documentation is a good idea. The Pro Drupal Development book shows a practical example of this, where a small number of people coming together can write excellent documentation (and the Drupal book is excellent!), versus having the community "let loose" so-to-speak on the docs.

I do think there's a definite place for community-driven documentation of course - perhaps to fill in all those gaps, providing lots of examples, and to show where documentation is really needed, but it can't replace a small number of individuals controlling (designing) the layout of the documentation. Again, the Drupal book provides an awesome example of this. I sure hope they revise it for Drupal 6!

...and no, I'm in no way affiliated with the Drupal book...