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Docs & Community SIG meeting - 2022-03-15

Meeting Agenda

Facilitator: Stephen Tramer

Notetaker: Finite_State

The SIG-Docs Meetings contains the history past calls, including a link to the agenda, recording, notes, and resources.

Regular SIG-Docs meeting scheduled for the second Tuesday of every month at 11am PST / 7pm UTC.

In attendance

  • stramer [Amazon]
  • AMZN_Micron
  • Finchy [Amazon,Finch Studios]
  • Finite_State
  • GI
  • Andre [BytesofPiDev]
  • AMZN JoeB

SIG updates

Upcoming release (tentatively 05/2022)

  • TSC not proposing an LTS in 2022

O3DE Logo change

  • O3DE is getting a new logo. When the logo is finalized, sig-docs-community will fast-follow with updates to o3de.org.

Audit activity

  • Partners at Amazon will be undertaking an audit of Github and internal issues in the near future.

  • There will also be an audit of animation-related documentation.

  • The SIG expects the audit to result in several RFCs.

  • PR velocity during the audit period may be reduced.

Project: Lua API reference

  • Changes have been made to Behavior Context translation assets. .names files are generated at ..\O3DE\<version>\Gems\ScriptCanvas\Assets\TranslationAssets\. @Finite_State will review changes and propose actions.

Agenda items

Vote on Proposed RFC: Separate main and development branches for versioning

Approved RFC has been accepted by the SIG with the amendments.

Action Items:

  • Changes to the contributor guide on the new development branch are required. @stramer assigned as owner.
  • The SIG will need to develop a merge strategy for the development branch. No owner assigned.
  • @willihay continues to work on the website versioning SIG project.

Discussion and response to community feedback thread

Action Items:

  • SIG will present the community's feedback to the TSC at the next opportunity.
  • SIG will propose including demo levels with distributed gems.

Postponed agenda items

Cultivating a friendly writing style and tone in O3DE Docs

Presenter: @AMZN-Gene @chanmosq
Length of time: 15 minutes to explain situation come up with next steps. If time allows, maybe more discussion.

O3DE Documentation tend to have a more technical and matter-of-fact tone. While this is appropriate for writing docs, tutorials have a more casual nature and can benefit from a friendlier tone. A friendlier tone can make documents more welcoming and easier to understand.
We want to address the expectations/standards for docs reviewers and contributors regarding cultivating a friendly tone where it's appropriate.

SIG role in tooltips, in-editor help, etc etc

Presenter: @sptramer
Length of time: 10-15m

The docs sig occasionally gets requests to review in-editor help information, and most importantly, our role in in-editor help has come up across the PRs o3de/o3de.org#1339 and o3de/o3de#6555. Engineers may be unwarily making changes which impact the user experience of documentation, and we should consider the sig-docs-community role in making sure that in-Editor documentation resources (whether static strings, site links, or something else) are appropriately reviewed and updated.