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 visiting the GDP Documentation Status Table (http://www.gnome.org/gdp/doctable/) and assigning a documentation item to yourself. This table also provides a forum for making suggestions and announcements for each documentation item. 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 gnome-doc-list mailing 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 gnome-doc-list mailing 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 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.