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squinnmdke, what was that whole deal between you and froud there?12:02
mdkemyself and a couple of others have a problem with his work methods12:03
mdkehopefully we will sort it12:03
mdkeat least we talk about it..12:04
philipacamaniacfrom an outside perspective, its making it difficult for me to decide whether or not to pursue real docteam work, or rather to just contribute to the wiki12:04
mdkei can imagine12:04
mdkei am sorry about that philipacamaniac 12:04
squinnmdke, i just realized12:07
squinnwe need that new package for breezyt12:07
squinnits not even in breezy repo yet.12:08
mdkesquinn, chill!12:08
mdkebreezy gets everything in the end12:08
mdkeUbuntu releases are synched with gnome releases12:08
squinnwell i'm just freaking12:09
squinnwith the upstream version freeze on july 7th12:09
mdkeyou're worse than jsgotango12:09
mdkedon't panic!12:09
squinnhaha..12:10
squinnokay12:10
squinnyeah, i had to help jerome hack into his own computer last night12:11
squinnhe forgot his password12:11
mdke*laughs*12:11
mdkeawesome story12:11
squinnyesss12:14
squinnubuntu automatically does what i was doing manually 12:15
squinni love it12:15
squinni was adding in events, like meetings, to my evolution calendar12:15
squinnand robitaille is maintaining a live one on the web12:16
mdkeurl?12:16
squinnhttp://ubuntulinux.org/wiki/Calendar12:17
squinnand there's an ical version..which syncs with evolution12:17
squinnjust change the http on it to webcal and add it to evolution and you're ready12:17
mdkeoh i didn't realise there was an ical version of that page12:17
mdkecool12:17
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squinnYep. I just found it.12:18
mdkehmm12:18
mdkenice work robitaille!!12:18
mdkeok Be RiGhT bAcK12:19
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squinnmdke, welcome back12:24
squinnwhat does SABDFL mean?'12:24
mdkethanks12:24
squinni know its mark's nick12:24
mdkeerm12:24
squinnbut is it an abbreviation?12:24
mdkeyes its an anacronym12:24
mdkeerm12:24
=== mdke racks brains
mdkeself appointed...12:24
mdkeb, dunno12:25
mdkedictator for life12:25
squinnbastard? lol12:25
squinnas in bastard operator from hell kinda bastard?12:25
mdkehmm12:25
mdkei think its a positive B12:25
mdkenot sure12:25
squinnBenevolent12:25
squinnthat's it12:25
squinn"Self-Appointed Benevolent Dictator For Life"12:26
squinnfound on slashdot12:26
mdkeyeah that was it12:26
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philipacamaniacmdke02:34
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squinnrobitaille, i'm in debt to you03:32
squinni love your iCal adaptation of the ubuntu calendar03:32
robitaillethanks.  I kept missing meetings, so a while back I decided to start maintaining one. I'm glad it is of use (I actually have no idea how many people are subscribing to it)03:43
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squinnhey jerome06:09
jsgotangcohey06:09
jsgotangcowhats up06:09
squinnnot much, i was nominated for commit account [yay] 06:10
jsgotangcothats great elmo will probably have it done later or tommorow06:10
squinnyep ye06:36
squinnp06:36
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froudmorn everyone, African greetings07:52
jsgotangcohello07:52
judaxTexas greetings07:53
jsgotangco"Thoughts questions? Silence will be interpreted as consent"07:53
jsgotangcofroud :(07:53
froudjsgotangco: see [proposal]  message for hacking the k user guide. responses wanted07:53
froudjsgotangco: :( ?07:54
jsgotangcoyou're gonna take a lot of flack for that statement07:54
froudwhich?07:54
jsgotangco"Thoughts questions? Silence will be interpreted as consent"07:54
froudthat's a dig at mdke :-)07:54
froudsee logs07:55
jsgotangcoi know, but why?07:55
froudand if ppl what to flack me its ok I have enough holes in me already so most bullets will just go straight through :-)07:55
jsgotangcoi will take this email as a "yes i am back and will contribute to whatever extent i can"07:56
froudon kde there is no problem07:56
froudkde ships html07:56
froud:-)07:56
jsgotangcowould you prefer to just do kde then07:56
froudright?07:56
froudjsgotangco: I am just leading by example07:57
froud:-)07:57
judaxgot to run to bed, you guys have a great day07:57
froudbye07:57
jsgotangcoi'm not in the mood for a long chat/explanation, i'll assume you'll do whatever you can within boundaries of your interest07:58
froudjsgotangco: people work when there is work being done. I am starting. Just like you fond with kwickguide, ppl come when things happen07:58
froudjsgotangco: thanks for the permission :-)07:58
jsgotangcoyes so i'll keep it as that07:58
jsgotangco?07:58
froudjust joking dude07:59
jsgotangcoi don't want people seeing you in the gray area of things07:59
froudoh dude, some will and some won't.07:59
froudI am getting used to the gray area, actually it is a good place, seems lots gets done there :-)08:00
=== jsgotangco puts froud on guy responsible for kubuntu user guide
froudjsgotangco: but I am not the only one, gtalyor and jjesse will be hacking it08:01
jsgotangcourrkk i hate moin tables08:01
froudthey are fun08:02
jsgotangcono they're not if you're monitor is only capable of 1024x768 :P08:09
froudok b c'ing ya08:09
froudmeetings08:09
Burgundaviahttp://hula-project.org/Wiki_Conversion08:17
jsgotangcoyes that's nice08:18
jsgotangcoits mediawiki08:18
jsgotangcoi loovvee mediawiki08:18
Burgundaviaso do I08:23
BurgundaviaI really wish they would consider us when they did the wiki move08:23
Burgundaviaas we are probably the largest user of the wiki08:23
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brodmanndoes anyone have planeshift installed?08:39
jsgotangcoBurgundavia, ping?09:20
Burgundaviahere09:20
jsgotangcowould you like to adopt a document in svn?09:20
Burgundavianot for a least another month09:21
BurgundaviaI am in the middle of searching for a job09:21
jsgotangcoits ok theres no rush09:21
jsgotangcoi just want to fill up this table in the wiki09:21
=== Burgundavia hates paper pushers ;)
jsgotangcook no pressure then09:31
Burgundavialol09:31
Burgundaviajust dumped 3 posts on p.u.c09:32
jsgotangcomr potato head09:34
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jsgotangcomdke, hi10:08
mdkehi jsgotangco 10:14
mdkehow are you?10:14
jsgotangcoim ok im doing wiki work now10:15
jsgotangcoi could not do everything at the same time10:15
jsgotangcohence i made up my schedule10:15
mdkecool10:17
mdkemaking a kde quickguide status page? cool10:17
jsgotangcono10:17
jsgotangcoim cleaning up the whole wiki10:17
jsgotangco:)10:17
mdkeright10:17
jsgotangcoi think i should love our wiki now10:17
jsgotangcothe last one was terrible10:17
jsgotangcomdke, what document are you going to adopt10:18
jsgotangcoi'll put it in the table10:18
mdkei don't think I am going to adopt one10:19
jsgotangcogyaahhh10:19
mdkehopefully we'll have some volunteers on the gnome user guide10:19
jsgotangcoi'll edit the table to make it look more understandable with the status10:20
jsgotangcoill projmgmt the whole thing10:20
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mdkecool10:23
mdkeperhaps "status" and "info" should be merged10:23
jsgotangcothe udu breezygoals wiki is a good sample of having everything visible all at once10:24
mdkeyes10:24
jsgotangcoprobably we can adopt the WIP, TBC, Pending, etc. style?10:24
mdkeit might be easier to have 1 table rather than 310:25
jsgotangcomerge all of them?10:25
jsgotangcosome of the generic docs might not be able to make it at all10:26
mdkei think it would look better10:26
jsgotangcoyou have a point10:27
jsgotangcohmm10:27
mdkewell the installguide should remain10:31
mdkeyou should probably remove the stuff which is not in our goals10:31
jsgotangcook i'll just make priorities i guess10:32
jsgotangcopriorities would be the major docs10:32
jsgotangcoseconds would be some generic stuff10:32
jsgotangcoill put styleguide as priority10:32
jsgotangcowtf the wiki just died on me11:31
mptwahhhhh12:27
mptholy wiki bug, batman12:27
jsgotangcoheh12:30
jsgotangcoits running now12:30
jsgotangcompt12:32
jsgotangcohttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocteamProjects12:32
jsgotangcowould a style like this be more preferable like what we did in UDU?12:32
mptjsgotangco, I don't understand that question, it's missing a "than" or a "to" :-)12:33
jsgotangcooh right english is not my primary language :)12:34
mptjsgotangco: The wiki being down isn't the bug. The bug is that http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/SELinux and https://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/SELinux are completely different pages.12:34
jsgotangcooooohhh12:34
jsgotangcoWOW12:34
JonAjsgotangco: Good work on the DocteamProjects page.12:46
jsgotangcoyou dig it?12:47
jsgotangcohehe12:47
jsgotangcoits much clearer thats how we did it during UDU12:47
JonAjsgotangco: I dig it :-)12:48
jsgotangconice thanks12:49
jsgotangcoStatus Page and HTML Preview are kinda cloudy for now12:50
jsgotangcobut its a start to have the show running smoothly12:50
JonAIs make regularly generating the docs from SVN for preview?12:53
JonA*Mako12:53
jsgotangcoi have no idea12:54
jsgotangcoits probabaly just the previous team using mako's shell12:54
mptWhat's the Moin code for a redirect?01:48
mptnm01:51
squinnJonA, I'm all clear to work together on GNOME user guide.01:59
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jsgotangcosivang, hey02:13
sivanghey jsgotangco 02:13
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JonAsquinn: Cool. I'll send you an email with my rough work plan when it's done.02:40
squinnSure, great.02:40
jjessemorning or whatever time of day it is for you :)02:47
jsgotangcojeezz im getting hungry02:47
squinnmorning here jjesse ..so..morning02:48
jjessegrin never know what time it is for people 02:48
jsgotangcook people, please fill up the blanks on this page02:49
jsgotangcohttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocteamProjects02:49
jsgotangco:)02:49
squinndone02:57
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jjessejsgotangco just people taking charge of the projects right? so if i'm working on a project but not in charge there is nothing really to fill in?03:00
jsgotangcohmm03:00
jsgotangcothat title is misleading03:00
jsgotangcothat field is supposed to say who's working on it rather than who's owning it03:01
jsgotangcobecause it might impede people from contributing if they see someone who already owns it03:01
jsgotangcoDoctem Members Involved03:02
jsgotangcosounds good?03:02
jjessefor example, working on kde userguide so i add my name03:02
jjesseand i like that change to the name03:02
jjessegrin work calls have a good day03:03
jsgotangcoholy wiki conflict03:14
jsgotangcoheh03:14
squinnI moved to your stuff03:14
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jsgotangcofroud, hi03:18
squinnmorning froud 03:19
froudjsgotangco: hi03:19
froudsquinn: hi03:19
=== squinn upgrades to breezy
jsgotangcogood luck03:20
squinni know03:20
squinni used to run gentoo unstable though03:21
squinnso i guess i'll be ready03:21
froudMS Office XML Formats Not OK with GNU03:26
jsgotangco?03:26
jsgotangcoim outta here03:26
froudMS Office XML Formats Not OK with GNU03:26
froudPeter Galli, eWEEK03:26
froudThe royalty-free license under which Microsoft plans to make its03:26
froudupcoming new Office Open XML Formats widely available is incompatible03:26
froudwith the GNU General Public License and will thus prevent many free and03:26
froudopen-source software projects from using the formats, community03:26
froudofficials say. In addition, a leading patent official is calling into03:26
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jsgotangcook bye bye03:28
JonAsquinn: Suggest pinning back xfonts-*03:38
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squinnWait, what, JonA?03:40
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JonAsquinn: I upgraded a testing maching to breezy a couple of days ago. Big problems with X, which can be made into more manageable problems if you don't upgrade the xfonts-* packages.04:00
JonAAlso, don't upgrade the libxft2 package.04:00
JonAIf you're upgrading with Synaptic, just use the "lock package" command under the Package menu.04:01
squinnoh fock.04:02
squinni gotta remember how to downgrade pkgs now04:02
squinnsave04:03
squinnit didn't upgrade yet, just downloaded files04:03
JonA:-)04:03
gtaylorjesus, remember that Ubuntu review I wrote/pasted in here yesterday?04:13
squinngtaylor, noh04:18
squinnoh04:18
squinnheh, just viewed it on osnews04:18
squinnand didn't realize greg taylor = gtaylor04:18
=== gtaylor guess I should've clarified my rating scale :)
gtaylorAnd spelled "drool" correctly04:19
squinnhah04:19
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gtaylorI didn't think someone was going to post some review on some unknown Linux site like that so I didn't spend a whole lot of time on it04:20
squinnah, i see04:25
squinnwelcome back, JonA 04:26
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gtaylorheh, a retort: http://squishywaffle.com/article.php/2005062110111545405:03
squinnheh, gtaylor, you seem familiar from somewhere05:06
squinnbraves fan, then, eh?05:06
squinnor just happy they beat UF?05:06
squinnoh, not UF, florida marlins05:08
gtaylorI do like the Braves, and yeah I missed the game but am glad they finally beat them05:09
squinnAh.05:10
squinnI live in Florida, yet despise the Marlind.05:10
squinnMarlins.*05:10
squinnand the Nationals. and the Phillies. and the Braves.05:10
squinnThat pretty much leaves my team all but revealed.05:10
squinnI bet ATL's fans are a lot more genuine then John Rocker portrayed my team's fans to be.05:10
jjesseis it just me or is the wiki slow today?05:11
squinnwiki's a little slow for me today05:11
gtaylorI can't believe the Nationals coming in from nowhere and kicking so much ass05:21
squinngtaylor, I know it. My team was tied for first..and is slowly sinking into last.05:23
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gtaylorWho are you pulling for?05:24
gtaylorYankees? :)05:24
squinnNL East.05:25
squinnRIVALS of the Yankees and the Braves.05:25
squinnThat OTHER New York team.05:25
squinnI'll brb, restart of X05:26
gtaylorblah, even worse :)05:27
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jjessethe mets stink :)05:27
jjesseunlike my team the detroit tigers05:28
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=== mpt sees gtaylor's review on Google News
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gtaylorwtf? Google News?05:52
gtaylorJesus christ, have people not seen an Ubuntu review before? Why is this thing getting plastered everywhere?05:53
mptheh05:53
gtaylorIt's the rating I gave it I bet. I've asked the site admin to let me clarify what my scale is setup like (which I should've done in the first place)05:53
gtaylor1 being equivalent to absolute worse Linux distro (currently) and 10 equivalent to one of the best/the best Desktop Linux (currently)05:54
gtaylor10 != perfect. There's no reason to have a 10 if nothing will ever reach it.05:54
mptgtaylor: My personal Google News page has an "Ubuntu Linux" category, which is currently showing me <http://addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&type=news&ID=7646>, which is an extended excerpt of your review05:54
gtaylorif one of you people slashdot that article I'm going to kill you :)05:55
gtaylorI'll start getting dead animals on my front door if it gets there05:55
mptYou're safe, it's not interesting enough05:55
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gtaylorheh, it was hastily written and sent out without screenshots or anything really05:56
mptgetting osnewsed is easy05:56
gtaylorI'm getting like 7 comment emails a minute and there's no way to turn them off on the linux review site05:57
mptThere's only 6 comments on the site!05:57
gtaylorthose are the only visible ones05:57
mptoh, you're the moderator?05:57
gtaylorthe users have to specifically check the "Make my comment visible" box and the admin has to approve them05:57
gtaylorno, the webmaster guy is05:58
gtaylorpeople are of course now bitching that no negative comments are showing up and blaming it on me :)05:58
mptyeah05:58
mptI was first wondering why the rating at the top of the article looked more like 4/5 than the 10/10 you'd given it05:58
mpteventually I realized it was ratings given by readers, but then I was wondering why the 4/5 was different from the 29/30 of the visible comments05:59
mptgtaylor: But I disagree that there's no reason to have a 10 if nothing will ever reach it06:00
mptYou need to allow room for improvement06:00
mptOperating systems today are like cars in the 1910s06:01
gtaylorimprovement to a point that will never be reached? :)06:01
mptThey've developed in leaps and bounds from the ones that were available 20 years ago, but they're still really really really crappy.06:01
gtaylorIf he lets me update it I'll probably just do a percentile since even a 1-20 scale is a bit kludgey06:03
gtaylora 10/10 could be rounded up from 9.6 :)06:03
mptheh06:03
mptand wipe up the drule :-)06:04
gtaylorblargh06:04
gtayloryou can tell I use that word a lot06:04
gtaylorlook at that guy's Fedora review, it has spelling errors in the summary06:04
gtaylorI make like 1-2 typos and people are like, "ooooh, non-native English speaker!"06:05
mpt"I selected my timezone, accepted the GPL..." <-- This distributor doesn't understand the GPL06:05
gtayloreh?06:08
mptThe GPL is not an EULA06:08
gtaylorwhere are you seeing that?06:08
gtaylorI mean where did you quote it?06:08
mptin the Fedora review06:08
gtaylorthe one with the tacky screenshot or the bad spelling guy?06:09
mpttacky screenshot I guess, I don't see any misspellings06:10
mpthttp://www.reviewlinux.com/articles/11/1/The-Fedora-Core-4-Review--06:10
mptapart from "very updated", which is grammar, not spelling06:10
gtaylorthat screenshot makes me want to run away screaming06:10
mptThat's what Linux looks like on Neptune06:10
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mptto borrow a phrase from elsewhere in the article, it "doesn't look very well"06:11
gtaylorheh06:12
mptReviews are hard to do well06:14
mptbut publicity is good.06:18
squinnyep.06:19
squinnPC World's #1 Linux Distribution of 2005 heh06:19
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philipacamaniac_mdke, you available?07:33
mdkei am indeed philipacamaniac_ 07:34
philipacamaniac_sorry about the _ on my name, don't know who the heck else would use my nick  :)07:35
philipacamaniac_anyway, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PhilipCain/HTML2MoinTest07:35
philipacamaniac_it kinda worked, but crucial things, like headings as links, didn't07:35
mdke*grins*07:36
mdkeget it back with /msg nickserv help07:36
mdkebut np07:36
mdkeheadings as links?07:37
philipacamaniac_=== heading ===07:37
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philipacamaniac_=== ThisWouldntWork ===07:37
philipacamaniac_it is more a problem with how the KUDOS guide is layed out. if you have good, clean HTML, the script will work great07:38
mdkedo we even have those implemented on our wiki?07:38
mdkeomg that is awesome!07:38
mdkegreat work07:38
mdkewell if you're doing it all on one page...07:39
philipacamaniac_I found it somewhere on the moin site, but adjusted a little to work for our purposes07:39
philipacamaniac_yes...07:39
mdkewhat you really want is for the tables of contents to link to the various sections07:39
philipacamaniac_I'll have to think about that one07:39
mdkethat is possible on a moin wiki using an anchor macro, but I dunno if it works on our wiki07:39
philipacamaniac_anchor macro works, 07:39
philipacamaniac_however, if you have an anchor in the source html that has a link and a name, it only takes the link07:40
mdkeI sent a proposal for a wiki team to the list07:40
philipacamaniac_when?07:41
mdkeright now07:41
mdkehmmm07:41
philipacamaniac_great07:41
squinni'm loving breezy07:42
squinnworks quite well07:42
philipacamaniac_gnome or KDE07:42
squinngnome07:43
mdkeah yes i see the macro07:43
mdkehttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpOnMacros?action=raw07:43
mdkecool07:43
squinnJonA was kind enough to tell me what not to upgrade [some X libraries]  and it's running like a charm07:43
mdkecool07:43
mdkei'll install it on my laptop if I ever get it repaired07:43
philipacamaniac_mdke, the moinconvert script was fast and light... it converted the entire KUDOS html in about 7 seconds07:44
mdkewow07:44
mdkethats is well cool07:45
philipacamaniac_so if I can figure out how to make it work better with multipage linking, we'll be golden07:45
philipacamaniac_it sure was!07:45
mdkeif you do, push it upstream too07:45
mdke#moin might be able to help07:45
philipacamaniac_Yeah, I'll do that07:45
mdkemvirkkil is working with them on a moin->docbook converter07:46
mdkemy god i get such a lag on this network07:46
mdkealways full bar07:46
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mdkesquinn, you have to be patient07:47
philipacamaniac_Is there already a good HTML > DocBook converter?07:47
mdkeit will take several days07:47
mdkephilipacamaniac_, no07:47
philipacamaniac_so, this script might actually have some use to the docteam07:48
mdkethere are some, but they don't work propa07:49
squinnmdke, i am07:49
mdkephilipacamaniac_, the html->moin one?07:49
mdkehttp://wiki.docbook.org/topic/Html2DocBook07:49
philipacamaniac_mdke, yes I meant html2moin07:50
mdkesquinn, submit patches and they will get committed07:51
squinni know, i'm looking over stuff as well07:51
philipacamaniac_if the HTML2DocBook starts to work better, the kudos (and others) should just be ported straight to DocBook. Is there a DocBook2Moin script?  ;)07:52
mdkephilipacamaniac_, yeah i think so!07:53
mdkei dunno07:55
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mdkephilipacamaniac_, but in any case i doubt that the kudos and ubuntuguide will be maintained in our repository07:55
philipacamaniac_ah yes, we'll convert from A to B, to get to C, and then take B back to A, to form D07:56
mdkewe have already tried to get the ubuntuguide guy to play ball and work officially with us, but he wants to maintain it himself I think07:56
jeffschphilipacamaniac_: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/doc/ArticleToMoinDesc07:56
philipacamaniac_that's what I saw on the mailing list...07:56
froudhttps://docteam.ubuntu.com/repos/trunk/teamstuff/article2moin07:57
philipacamaniac_does it work, froud and jeffsch?07:57
froudyeah07:57
jeffschyes. but is not complete07:57
mdkeit is work in progress07:57
mdkeoh thats not the moin2docbook one07:58
mdkesoz07:58
jeffschi'm thinking it might be easier to do docbook->xhtml->moin07:58
froud:-)07:58
philipacamaniac_interesting07:59
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philipacamaniacyay07:59
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philipacamaniacwell, I like the idea of a wiki team08:02
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mdkewb08:06
mdkethe idea of a wiki team is not a new one i think, i saw it somewhere on the wiki, although i can't find it right now08:06
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philipacamaniachttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/WikiToDo?highlight=%28wikiteam%2908:09
philipacamaniacsearch good08:09
philipacamaniacis there a page that clearly defines the purpose of the wiki?08:10
mdkeof the wiki in general, or our wiki?08:13
philipacamaniacour wiki08:13
mdkedunno then ;)08:14
philipacamaniacobviously, howtos and collaboration of the various teams, plus homepages... but I there's a lot of other stuff in there, too08:15
philipacamaniaclike a page describing mepis08:16
mdkeyeah08:16
mdkeits free for all08:16
philipacamaniacwhich is fine, sorta, but maybe the wikipolicy could define the nature of possible wikipages08:17
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mdkeok i'll be back later08:18
philipacamaniaccya08:18
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mdkemelodie, although there are some ideas about harnassing the documentation in source packages for Ubuntu (jdub is interested in that area, but is a very busy guy), there is no active project yet10:53
melodiemdke: the thing is I drove around the all net to find about the CD stories10:54
mdkehmm10:54
mdketo me it sounds like a bug with the program10:54
melodieand all around ATAPI drives10:54
mdkeyou say there is some debian documentation?10:54
melodieas \sh sayd It could be the hard but I checked it10:54
melodiethe doc is10:54
melodiein the cdrtool-docs package10:55
mdkeif you are interested in that particular area, a cool thing would be to take the debian documentation, suggest some amendments to it, and file a bug under that package. The other alternative might be to put something on the wiki10:55
melodieall the docs contain infos that are more or less obsolete10:55
melodieI went throught the 800 and so lines of man cdrecord also :))10:56
melodieand no one doc gives accurate info10:56
melodiewhat is the best alternate ? 10:57
melodieI've got about 11 pages on OOo notes10:57
melodieI file bugs each time I meeet some10:58
melodieand get good returns on them10:58
melodie:)10:59
mdkehmm10:59
mdkethats cool10:59
mdkei reckon a bug on the package that contains the obsolete doc10:59
mdkethat is really useful10:59
mdkemaybe even both :D10:59
mdkewiki pages are always useful11:00
melodieI can tell you something strange ?11:00
mdketell me anything11:00
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melodieI dl the NeroLinux documentation :D11:00
mdkeok11:00
mdkedon't tell me that :p11:00
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melodieI found out it's more understandable11:00
mdke*grins*11:01
melodieOh but I dl with wget :))11:01
melodiecan you here me laughing ?11:01
melodieIt does not matter, I can extract it ;)11:02
melodielol11:02
melodieI'm kidding, but I can't burn my datas anymore11:02
mdke:/11:02
mdkeannoying11:03
melodieand could not find how come11:03
mdkehave you tried burning as root?11:03
melodieeven trying on the laptop with older datas I ripped in11:03
melodieeven on a new user account11:03
mdkeas root?11:03
melodieno11:03
melodieI just put the user 11:04
melodieas belonging to all groups11:04
mdkelinux has some problems with burning iirc11:04
melodieiirc ?11:04
mdkeif i recall correctly11:04
mdkei think the solution is to burn as root11:04
mdke"Important information: Linux-2.6.8.1 breaks CD/DVD writing for suid root applications [...]  If you have related problems, try to call cdrecord as real root or go back to Linux-2.4"11:05
melodiesee, when I copy repertories to the nautilus cdcreator11:05
mdke(from homepage of cdrecord)11:05
melodieit links the files instead of copying them11:05
melodiethen the message appears:11:05
melodieError wrong chain encoding11:05
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melodiewhen I click on 'grave'11:06
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melodiebut I is only the latest aspect of the pb11:06
mdkeBurgundavia, alright?11:06
mdkemelodie, i don't know enough to help you, but I think you should try running a burning program as root11:06
judaxGreetings11:07
melodiehum11:07
Burgundaviayes, debugging an xchat craher11:07
mdkehi judax!11:07
mdkeBurgundavia, aha11:07
judaxmdke: Hi11:07
melodiethe simpliest way would be trying that in cd line11:07
mdkemelodie, yes11:07
mdkeBurgundavia, i'm thinking of switching to irssi now11:07
melodieso I have to go back to cdrecord man11:07
mdkemelodie, not really, you can run a graphical burner as root11:08
melodieYes I know 11:08
mdkesudo graveman or su, graveman11:08
melodieor start the file navigator as root, (or sudo) and use the nautilus burner11:09
mdkeyes11:09
mdkebut I don't trust that burner that much11:09
melodieI just changed it for a new one :)11:09
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melodieI get the same I/O errors, and on laptop too11:10
melodieI think the config files must be rewritten11:10
mdkehave you tried burning at a lower speed?11:10
melodieyes11:10
melodie4x11:10
melodiewith 4x media11:10
mdkeok i have no more ideas11:11
mdkebut if you want to get involved with editing that documentation, that would be mega cool11:11
melodiewhat do you get when graving ?11:11
mdkegraving?11:11
melodiesorry11:11
melodieburning11:12
mdkeit works11:12
melodie(I'm a frenchy)11:12
mdke*grins* i saw that11:12
mdkeyour english is fine11:12
melodiedo you have ATAPI devices ?11:12
melodieby the way, I'm on irssi, it's really cool11:12
mdkei need to experiment ways to change the look11:13
melodieEdit/Current profile11:14
melodieTab coulours or effect11:14
melodieIt changes the look of xterm11:15
melodiethat's what you mean ?11:15
mdkei dont have xterm11:15
melodie?11:15
melodiewhat do you have ?11:15
mdkewell i have it, but i don't use it11:15
mdkeaterm11:15
melodieI don't know aterm11:16
melodieso I can tell you for xterm 11:16
melodieor for the Kde Konsole if I remember how it is :)11:16
mdkepresumably I can change colours for irssi somewhere11:16
melodieif you have a few menus in aterm...11:17
mdkeno, i just want to change irssi colours11:17
melodiemaybe in it's specific config file somewhere ?11:18
mdkeyeah11:18
melodieIf you find out, it can be a nice little how-to :)11:18
mdkegood thinking11:19
melodie:)11:19
melodieabout burning, could you tell me if you tried all sorts ? such as audio too per example ?11:20
mdkei don't burn much11:20
mdkethe occasional iso11:20
melodiewhat do you use when you backup datas ?11:21
mdkenetwork11:21
melodiefrom the lan you mean ?11:22
mdkeyus11:22
melodieok11:22
melodiethat's the solution I'm thinking about to resolve momently11:22
melodieThere would also be a need for a step to step doc with the graphic inferface and snapshots to configure a lan11:23
melodiemdke: what kind of documentation work do you do ?11:26
mdkei am not really very technically good11:27
mdkei have done menial tasks on the wiki11:27
mdkeand a little bit of editing on some of our docs11:27
mdkei like organising11:28
mdkei helped organise the translations of our stuff for hoary, hopefully for breezy there will be more11:28
melodieI notice there seem to be more and more translations on the french official wiki11:29
mdkeyes11:29
mdkethe french team is doing good work11:29
mdkewebsite is nice too11:29
melodieI read boths, but reading in french is more comfort11:30
melodieyes, the site looks good11:30
melodieand many users don't grab english too much11:30
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melodieso it's nice for them too11:30
melodienods ?11:30
mdketo nod is to move the head up and down, to signify agreement11:31
melodieyees!11:31
mdkewhats that in french11:31
melodieI didn't know thanks! :))11:31
melodieI have to think about an equivalent11:32
melodie'hocher de la tte'11:32
mdkeok11:32
melodiebut no direct equivalent to get it short11:32
melodiedo you talk french ? 11:32
mdkenon11:33
melodielol11:33
mdkeje parle la francais tres mal11:33
melodienot so bad ;)11:35
melodiewell for the doc question, I think I could do two things11:35
melodieas you sayd, I could file a bug somewhere about the doc from the cdrtool-docs package11:36
melodieand I could try to register on the Ubuntu ml to post my questions11:40
melodieI didn't try it yet11:40
melodieand with a little luck maybe 11:40
melodiesome more advanced people11:40
melodiethan the ones on the Ubuntu french forums might have good answers11:40
melodieon precise questions11:40
melodie?11:40
melodiedo you know the ml a little ?11:40
mdkeerm11:40
melodieerm ?11:40
mdkethe ubuntu-users one?11:40
mdkei don't know it much11:40
melodieIthink so11:40
mdkeits good tho11:40
mdkealso ubuntu-fr11:40
melodiethe chan ?11:40
mdkeML11:40
melodieah ok11:40
melodiecause when I go to the chan with questions 11:40
melodiethere are mostly more newbees than I11:40
mdkeah11:40
melodienot all, but mostly11:40
melodieIt's nice to help also, but I've got to get out of trouble too :)11:41
mdkeyeah11:42
melodieok, I'm going to quit now, need to sleep :)11:43
mdkecool11:43
mdkewe're always here11:44
melodiethank you :)11:44
melodieI'll try to come give news for the doc project11:44
melodieyou didn't say: what devices do you use that go well for burning ?11:45
melodiejust to know if the same as mine :)11:46
mdkeerm11:46
mdkehow do I find out?11:46
melodieno, do you have scsi drives or atapi ? just that 11:47
mdkei _think_ atapi11:47
melodieok, I'll go deeper in the question on a mailing list :)11:48
melodiethank you very much, until next :)11:48
melodieand good night this time 11:49
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melodiebye bye ^^11:49
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matt_sorry all11:51
matt_playing11:51
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