This is a collection of various articles describing the Documentation Project at Blender3d. Some of the articles may be useful to people wishing to contribute to the Project, by giving an overview on the procedure of obtaining Source Documentation, editing, and submitting back to DocBoard.
The Documentation Project is a work-in-progress, community undertaking devoted in an effort to create an up-to-date Blender manual. The Project will also aid in full internationalization support to make Blender more accessible worldwide.
The Documentation Project is directly responsible for the current Blender 2.3 Guide. Future manuals will also be generated through this Project so that new features, internationalization translations and GUI changes can be referenced by the Blender3d?s users.
The Documentation Project is currently overseen by the Blender Foundation DocBoard. Members of the DocBoard and contributors to the Project are as follows: Florian Findeiss, Alex Heizer, Reevan McKay, Jason Oppel, Ton Roosendaal, Stefano Selleri, Bart Veldhuizen, and Carsten Wartmann.
The Project is looking for people to proactively maintain the documentation, update particular features or sections, and perform international translations. This means making sure the content is always up-to-date, and typo free. Contributors should posses:
If you wish to help out with the Documentation effort. Firstly join discussions on the Bf-docboard mailing list. This is where we discuss the mechanics of internationalization, announcements of updates to documents, tasks that need to be done, etc. Secondly look over the methods for working with the source Documentation. If you understand the procedure than please give it a try. You may have a translation that flows better than does the official one, you may find a translation error, typos, images that need updating, misspellings and other possibilities. Perhaps you have coded a new feature for Blender that needs proper documentation or you may want to volunteer to be a translator for your language. The Bf-docboard mailing list can be located here: projects.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-docboard