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mdkedouble checking12:02
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mdkeon my home box, even the longer crontab involving the && has worked fine12:03
Burgundaviafun12:04
Burgundaviamore harddrive stress testing, this time provided by my landlord12:04
kbrookslol12:04
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thechitowncubslol12:05
mdkerobitaille, i have an idea, which will involve a certain amount of grovelling at your feet and apologising for wasting your time12:06
=== mdke says in a small voice "the daemon wasn't started"
robitailleyes?12:08
=== mdke coughs
robitaillethe daemon wasn't started???? sigh  :)12:08
mdkesorry!12:09
mdkeseriously sorry12:09
mpthey Burgundavia12:09
robitailleno problem.  to tell you the truth, I have never faced that problem.  my cron daemon have always work on machines I tried crons on12:09
mdkerobitaille, yeah, it gets started when you install it12:09
mdkestill, should have thought of that12:09
mdkeif nothing is working, think about the basics...12:10
Burgundaviasalut mpt 12:10
mptBurgundavia: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommonProblemsGuideSpec looks remarkably similar to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LocalHelp 12:10
Burgundaviampt, ironically, I hadn't read localhelp recently12:10
Burgundaviabut yes12:11
mdkecombine the two!12:11
mptBurgundavia: I'd rather have a different license though :-)12:11
mdkeBurgundavia, thechitowncubs, robitaille, mpt, what do you think of the table of contents on UserDocumentation?12:11
Burgundaviampt, what do you mean?12:11
Burgundaviamdke, I like it12:11
mdkenot too crowded?12:12
Burgundavianope12:12
Burgundaviawouldn't want to make it any bigger12:12
thechitowncubsI think its nice12:12
mdkei mean, not too crowded with the other text on the left?12:12
mdkei like the box myself as well12:12
kbrooksbrb12:13
Burgundaviamdke, combining the two means that my forked doc becomes our default page12:13
mdkeBurgundavia, well the team hasn't said that LocalHelp will be the default page12:14
Burgundaviamdke, yes, but local help strongly hints that (and I happen to agree)12:14
mdkeyes12:14
mdkebut the team has not discussed it12:14
Burgundaviayes12:14
Burgundaviamaybe for the next meeting?12:14
mdkeok12:14
mdkempt?12:15
mptBurgundavia: GPL instead of GFDL12:15
Burgundaviaoh12:15
Burgundaviathe docs are all GFDL and CC by sa 2.012:15
mptBurgundavia: That way (1) it can contain code (and help will eventually need code for "Do this for me" etc), and (2) it'll always be usable by Debian12:15
Burgundaviayes12:16
Burgundavianeed to discuss with the doc team12:16
Burgundaviawe can tri license12:16
mptand (3) there doesn't need to be a user-visible link to a list of contributors that is irrelevant to people using the help12:16
kbrookshuh?12:17
mdkeuser-visible links to contributors = bad12:17
kbrooksmpt: where?12:17
kbrooksshow me a page?12:17
mdkekbrooks, any docteam page12:17
kbrooksone example?12:17
mdkethe userguide12:17
mdkethe faqguide12:17
mdkethe styleguide12:17
mdkethe quickguide12:17
mdkeetc12:17
mdkeall of them12:18
Burgundaviaok, the next agenda is up12:18
mdkeBurgundavia, good12:18
Burgundaviahttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocteamMeetingAgenda?action=show12:18
mdkemy view is that LocalHelp should have its own link in the menu (Start Here) whereas the other docs should be accessible via another link to a document index12:18
Burgundaviathat is another link12:19
Burgundaviabetter to have a good default start page12:19
mdkeerm i didn't explain well12:19
mptBurgundavia: See http://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:Why_Wikitravel_isn't_GFDL for an example that may be more familiar to you12:19
Burgundaviampt, the GFDL and CC by sa 2.0 issues are known to me12:20
BurgundaviaI have been involved in several discussions at WP about the GFDL12:20
mptooooh, the "by" in by-sa has the same problem, doesn't it12:20
Burgundaviayes12:20
Burgundavianeither is DFSG-free12:20
mptis there a CC license that is?12:21
Burgundaviano idea12:21
Burgundaviathe issues with CC and the GFDL seem to be mostly stupid wording choices12:22
mdkeyay the cronjob is workin12:23
mdkeg12:23
mpthttp://creativecommons.org/license/meet-the-licenses :-(12:23
Burgundaviaboo, blam is borked on breezy12:23
Burgundaviampt, what is wrong with that page?12:23
mdkeBurgundavia, why don't you work on localhelp and abandon the fork? wouldn't it essentially be the same work?12:23
mptBurgundavia: Every license has "Attribution" in its name12:24
Burgundaviamdke, local help is a spec12:24
mdkeBurgundavia, i mean, work on implementing it12:24
Burgundaviasure, I can merge them12:24
mdkeor was it agreed that localhelp was breezy+112:24
mdke?12:24
mdkei seem to remember sabdfl saying it was out of reach12:24
Burgundaviahadn't heard anything12:24
Burgundaviait is not out of reach12:24
mdkeat the meeting12:24
Burgundaviawhich one?12:25
mdkethe only one we've had which involved sabdfl12:25
mdkewe reviewed localhelp12:25
mptI thought that was the HelpfulHelp spec12:25
mptmost of which *is* out of reach for Breezy12:26
mdkeooh yeah12:26
mdkesorry!12:26
mptLocalHelp is a Simple Matter of Writing12:26
mdkeok then maybe you can merge burg's idea and LocalHelp12:26
mdkesounds like a cool idea to me12:26
mdkebut you should make sure you use material in the faqguide so that you don't have to write, just select the relevant bits12:26
mdkeand then edit them as appropriate12:27
mptI'd love to have 48 hours in each day and spend 12 of them writing help12:27
BurgundaviaI am about half done the spec of mine12:27
mdke [23:23:56]  < Burgundavia> mpt, what is wrong with that page?12:27
mdkeargh12:27
mdkesorry bad paste12:27
Burgundaviaand to be honest, most of the faq guide is useless12:27
mdkempt, Burgundavia can help you out! together you'll have 48 hours12:27
Burgundaviaand most is commandline junk12:27
mptbut I literally have sabdfl looking my shoulder right now, and he's probably wondering why I'm not doing Launchpad work12:27
mdkeBurgundavia, the popularity of ubuntuguide proves you wrong IMO, it is not just used for the common stuff12:27
mptlooking over my shoulder, rather12:27
Burgundaviampt, convince your employer to pay me and then I can do it12:28
mdkelol12:28
Burgundaviamdke, not really12:28
Burgundaviawhat people want is easy solutions12:28
Burgundaviathe ubuntu guide is one of them12:28
Burgundaviaand the ubuntuguide appeals to a very specific set fo users, that doesn't include most of our parents12:28
mdkeBurgundavia, i'm not saying its perfect, i'm just saying people want answers to many questions, not just the most common ones, although those are the most important12:28
mdkesure12:28
mptand they don't know which questions are common and which aren't12:28
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mdkei agree that common is a good idea12:29
mdkempt, i agree with you12:29
mdkebrb12:29
mptubuntuguide wouldn't work for my mother12:29
Burgundaviano12:29
mdkeagreed 100%12:29
mdkebut that doesn't mean its "useless" as corey said12:29
Burgundaviathat is what LocalHelp and CommonProblems is for12:29
mdkei think they are both valuable12:30
Burgundaviathe market that Ubuntu is trying to move into and linux is traditionally weak in, is our parents12:30
Burgundaviaand that is why we should really target our energies there12:30
mdkeis it not clear that I agree with you?12:30
Burgundaviaokl12:31
Burgundaviao12:31
Burgundaviaok, even12:31
mdkegood12:31
mdkei was just challenging your use of the word "useless"12:31
Burgundaviaok12:32
Burgundaviathere are also better ways of getting the info across to the audience that ubuntuguide targets12:32
=== mdke nods
Burgundaviageez, looking at WP stats12:33
Burgundavia25k editors. Only 1300 with over 100 edits12:33
Burgundaviaand probably about 100 with over 10k edits (like yours truly)12:33
mptBurgundavia: The Long Tail, right?12:33
Burgundaviayes12:34
=== mpt wonders if he's one of those with >100
mptmust be pretty close to that12:34
Burgundaviarofl12:34
mdkei've done 112:34
mdkeph33r12:34
Burgundaviasome days I used to do 250 a day12:34
=== Burgundavia is truly truly crazy
mptThat's more than one every three minutes12:35
Burgundaviayes12:35
Burgundaviamostly cleanup stuff12:35
mdkei think both those specs are really cool12:36
mdkei wanna make that clear :)12:36
mdkemaybe put them out for discussion on the mailing list? that way people can read and think about them before the meeting12:36
BurgundaviaLocalHelp and CommonProblems?12:37
=== mpt steals sabdfl's chair
=== Burgundavia closes the 100th "FF segfaults" bug
Burgundaviabloody dups12:39
mpterh, we still don't have a "did you mean..." dup-finder in Malone12:39
Burgundaviayou need one12:39
mptI've had three dups on one of the bugs I reported, and that Malone only has about 1500 bug reports in it so far12:40
Burgundaviaand it needs to be ajax cool, so that it doesn't require another click12:40
mptmmm12:41
mdkeok i'm off to bed12:41
mdkenight12:41
mpttchau mdke12:41
mptah crud, GPL isn't good for help either12:44
Burgundavianot really12:44
mpt"For instance, anyone publishing the book on paper would have to either include machine-readable "source code" of the book along with each printed copy, or provide a written offer to send the "source code" later."12:45
Burgundaviamuch easier to just put a C12:45
Burgundaviawhy does our copyright system make it hard to share stuff? 12:45
mpthttp://creativecommons.org/license/publicdomain is looking more and more attractive12:46
BurgundaviaI put most of my works in the PD12:46
Burgundaviatoo much effort to license12:46
mptIs PD DFSG-free? :-)12:46
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Burgundaviarofl12:48
robitailleBurgundavia:  there was an argument at that VLUG meeting a couple of months ago against putting stuff in the PD vs other license...  But I forgot was it was...12:48
Burgundaviathe issue with PD is that then evil corps can do what they want12:48
robitailleI wonder if the slides of that talk are up somewhere12:48
Burgundaviathat was the linux licensing talk that I missed12:48
robitailleyes12:48
naliothso how do i become an ordained ubuntu documentarian?12:49
Burgundavianalioth, you exist and write docs12:49
Burgundaviaand therefor you are12:49
Burgundavianalioth, you comfortable with xml and docbook?12:50
naliothso who's the pope?12:50
Burgundaviasome freaky german guy12:50
Burgundaviampt, how do you want to merge those 2 specs?12:50
naliothBurgundavia: umm, errr, i was gonna stick with the wiki12:50
BurgundaviaWikiToDo lists stuff that needs to be worked on12:50
naliothpope = supreme overlord of docteam12:50
Burgundaviaif there is nothing there that strikes your fancy, then almost everything needs work12:51
Burgundaviathe docteam has no pope12:51
Burgundaviawe are an anarchy12:51
BurgundaviaAudioCDCreation and FileCompression are good examples of pages12:51
naliothi was gonna approach the wiki with a team of elves12:51
mptBurgundavia: How about the "Document plan" from yours + the hierarchy from mine? :-)12:52
naliothdocument plan?12:52
Burgundaviaok, I will merge and we can work on LocalHelp12:52
mptWith baz archives we'll be able to merge from each other whenever we like12:53
naliothi'm a total droooling n00b when it comes to official documentation12:53
Burgundavianalioth, easiest to pick a page you want to work on and then start hacking12:53
Burgundaviaand then ask us when are done12:53
naliothbut i have an understanding of what grandma wants to read when she starts her new ubuntu box that grandchild gave her12:53
Burgundaviayes12:54
naliothso basically, there is no "official docteam"? (i'm lost atm)12:54
Burgundaviayes12:55
Burgundaviathere is, we just don't have a chief poobah12:55
Burgundaviampt, the doc team already works like a baz archive12:55
naliothso how does one join the "official team"? (and learn all these big words)12:55
Burgundaviaedit some docs12:56
Burgundaviathe wiki is very low barrier12:56
Burgundaviafor our svn repo, make some good patches and then ask for access12:56
naliothi have been editing some docs12:56
Burgundaviawelcome aboard!12:56
naliothquite unofficially, lol12:56
BurgundaviaI think you are supposed to be an ubuntu member, but whatever12:57
naliothi am, but whatever (thought wikis were open to anyone)12:57
Burgundaviathey are12:57
Burgundaviathe doc team mostly just steers the wiki12:57
naliothso you want me to send the interested elvi in here then?12:58
Burgundaviaabsolutely12:58
Burgundaviathechitowncubs, might be nice to split the kde on gnome config stuff into another page12:59
naliothok12:59
mpthttp://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-community/2005-March/000357.html01:00
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mpthttp://people.debian.org/~evan/ccsummary.html01:10
Burgundaviampt, should Printing be Printing and Scanning01:10
Burgundaviampt, indeed, I have read those01:10
thechitowncubsBurgundavia: ya that might work01:11
mptBurgundavia: Possibly, or change "Disks and storage devices" to "Disks and devices"01:11
mpthttp://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-community/2005-March/000369.html <-- we could use this01:12
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Burgundaviawell, we would be tri licensing01:13
Burgundaviajust add GPL to the two we already have01:13
Lizsigh...thats better01:13
mptWhat would that gain us?01:13
mptLiz: Are you Maori?01:13
Lizyes i am01:13
Burgundaviadebian can ship us as GPL01:14
mptBurgundavia: I meant, what would the GFDL gain us01:14
Burgundaviawe already have it, we might as well keep it01:14
BurgundaviaI had another thought with the help01:15
Burgundaviachange /a/your01:15
mptBurgundavia: We couldn't use any existing GFDL+CC-BY-SA stuff01:15
mptbecause all its contributors haven't given permission for their work to be published under the GPL01:16
Burgundaviayou want to change to just cc-by01:16
Burgundaviayes01:16
BurgundaviaI am in favour of simply doing nothing for now01:16
mptAnd the trouble with not having the GPL is that a lot of help should actually be in dialogs etc themselves, not in documents01:17
mptSo while we write help, we should also report bugs on moving sentences from that help to the software01:17
mptAnd starting a new document is a good time to make license decisions :-)01:18
Burgundaviayes01:18
Burgundaviawhat did you think of the change from A to MY or YOUR for a prefix in the help01:18
mptI don't like that01:19
Burgundaviaok01:19
mptUsing "my" makes sense for form controls, where a person is carrying out stuff about their stuff01:19
mpte.g. "[/]  Encrypt my home directory"01:20
mptbut where you're explaining stuff *to* a person, second person is more appropriate01:20
Burgundaviaok01:20
mpt"The lock of CoreyBurger2 timed out 0 minute(s) ago" -- still editing?01:21
Burgundaviayes01:22
Burgundaviajust a sec01:22
Burgundaviadone01:22
mpthmmm01:23
Burgundaviahack away01:23
mptDo you think "Using a digital camera" would be better under "Music, photos, and video"?01:24
Burgundaviamight be01:24
Burgundaviayes01:24
Burgundaviausers don't consider it a device01:25
Burgundaviaand music player should be under music01:25
=== Burgundavia wants live collaborative editing on the wiki
mptDoes Ubuntu have any faxing software?01:26
Burgundaviaefax01:26
Burgundaviabut it is ugly as shit01:27
Burgundaviagfax, also ugly01:27
mptNeither of those appear in the menus, yay01:33
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Burgundaviawe have no fax program, basically01:35
mgalvinwe have fax software just not pretty fax software01:36
mgalvinno easy to use fax software, sadly01:36
Burgundaviaya01:36
Burgundaviasaw a link on the forums. some guy completely redid the audacity interface01:37
Burgundaviaonly a mockup, but it looked quite nice01:37
rob^mgalvin, just looking at Multimedia Codecs01:39
rob^I guess they are commands, so probably should have the <command> tag01:40
mgalvinmy thoughts exactly, and i just used that section as a test run to see if it looks ok01:40
rob^I was planning to remove all the "sudo apt-get" stuff though01:41
mgalvinright ok, forgot about that, well good thing i didn't bother to do more01:41
rob^see Smeg (Applications-> System Utilities) for an example01:41
rob^I mentioned it under the version revision, but yeah for the rest of the commands, sure01:42
rob^speaking of changing everything to synaptic/kynaptic, what do you think about it?01:43
mptWhat's Audacity?01:43
naliothmpt: an audio editor01:44
mptoh, I installed it at some point01:44
Burgundavia They are unlikely to include tools like hot-babe, and, thus, may be considered safer versions to use in situations where somebody may get offended.01:44
BurgundaviaWell, OK, perhaps we can't be too sure with Ubuntu. 01:44
rob^yep01:44
mptgtk1 like gfax01:44
mptthere's a tool like hot-babe?01:44
mptlike -> called01:44
rob^Burgundavia, were you refering to me?01:45
Burgundavia"The Debian developers raised the obvious, predictable objection to the inclusion of this utility: the associated images were covered by a non-free license."01:45
Burgundaviarob^, no01:45
Burgundaviahttp://lwn.net/Articles/113644/01:45
rob^ok np01:45
mpthaha01:49
mptThis is like the Gnome Certification being discussed recently on desktop-devel01:49
rob^mpt, http://dindinx.net/hotbabe/download.php01:51
rob^dam, now I need to find something to chew resources01:52
mpthaha01:52
rob^yay, I just ran "yes" in a terminal!01:52
rob^man thats funny as..01:53
mptrob^: How does one get it to run?01:56
mptI've installed it, but as per bloody usual, it's not in the menus01:56
rob^you need to run it from a terminal01:56
rob^hot-babe01:56
rob^I have a one line shell in my top gnome menu bar01:57
rob^I'll tell you what, shes easy01:57
mptAlso too large for this screen01:57
rob^yeah? mine is only < 10cm high01:58
mptYes, I was expecting ~2cm high01:58
rob^but then I'm using a 20inch screen01:58
Burgundaviampt, you realize the wiki is already gfdl and cc by sa 2.0 ?02:03
mptno, I didn't02:03
Burgundaviahmm, legalese doesn't mention it02:04
Burgundaviait should02:04
mptthe wiki doc is a spec, not the help itself02:06
Burgundaviayes02:06
Burgundaviabut the various other docs on the wiki02:06
mptBurgundavia: http://www.sourcecontrol.net/?action=pushaccount02:17
Burgundaviacool02:17
Burgundaviacurrently baz is acting up, because I am running the crack of the day02:17
Burgundaviawill try later today02:18
mptok, past 9pm time to leave, and going rafting tomorrow, so I may not be online02:18
mptwi-fi at the hotel is apparently broken anyway02:18
mptso I'll be back on Monday, perhaps earlier02:19
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Burgundaviaok02:19
Burgundaviayou in brazil?02:19
mptyah02:19
Burgundavialucky bastard02:20
mptLaunchpad sprintathon02:20
mptttfn02:20
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mgalvinrob^ regarding your question before, it was about using synaptic right? i think it's proabably a good idea to use it since it is a gui and is easier for noobs and windows switcher to use to ease their transition even more02:52
rob^yeah02:52
rob^what do you think of the example though?02:52
mgalvinsorry, which was it again02:53
rob^umm02:53
rob^smeg02:53
jsgotangcosalut02:53
rob^theres an explination in "Installing Applications" also02:53
jsgotangcois smeg to be included?02:53
rob^well, its in there02:53
mgalvinjsgotangco, yes, it is going to be in main, we should mention how to use it02:54
jsgotangcoi mean inclusion in main?02:54
jsgotangcoWHOA02:54
mgalvinyup, iirc02:54
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Burgundaviasmeg is going to be the default menu editing app02:57
jsgotangcoim going to take a bath brb02:59
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rob^hey has anyone here ever installed gentoox MCE on an xbox?03:03
mgalvinrob^, it sounds good, one suggestion... i think we should also mention to click the search button and enter the app name so that user know of it and don't have to manually scan the list themselves to find the package they wich to install03:03
mgalvins/wich/wish/03:04
rob^yeah I was thinking that, wasn't sure how to fit it in though03:04
rob^.03:07
mgalvinadd it between what is now 2 and 3 (so searching would now be 3) and say something like... Alternitively you can click the search button, enter the application name in the text field and synaptic will show you a much shorter list from which to select your application for installation. This can be much easier that having to look through the very long list of applications on your own. (something like that)03:07
rob^yeah03:07
rob^hey, is X sane in breezy again?03:07
rob^I noticed the took that out of their topic03:07
mgalvinnot sure, i think it is03:08
Burgundaviano03:08
rob^ah dam03:08
Burgundavia-devel still says X is broken03:08
mgalvinok guess not :-/03:08
Burgundaviamileage varies03:08
rob^so it does03:08
BurgundaviaI have only had one issue03:08
rob^I had to manually configure it last time I used breezy, but I take it that its really broken atm03:09
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rob^what a shitty way to do things, bloody gentoo users..03:10
rob^bloody xbox03:11
mgalvinrob^ did you want to add that point on synaptic search, or shall i?03:17
rob^go right ahead, I'm about to go out for lunch03:18
mgalvinok, i'll add it in then03:18
naliothbreezy wont install on my new G5 imac03:18
thechitowncubsnalioth, why do you get mac's if you don't use mac osx?05:50
nalioththechitowncubs: i use OSX on my newer macs (with lots and lots of fink)05:51
thechitowncubsic ic05:51
naliothfink and darwinports05:52
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ed1tyo yo yo05:54
naliothed1t: you makin a rap record?05:55
ed1theh 05:57
ed1tjizzle dizzle...my songs the shizzle06:00
ed1thows that for the beginning?06:00
nalioththought you was starting with yo yo yo06:00
ed1tyea that too06:01
ed1tnalioth, u want couple of songs on my album? :P06:02
naliothed1t: sure thing06:02
ed1tnalioth, u have any ideas on ur opening?06:03
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vendaafrican greetings07:51
Burgundaviasalut07:53
vendaHi, Burgundavia what was the end of the FAQGuide debate?07:53
BurgundaviaI have forked the FAQGuide07:54
Burgundaviaand am now merging my fork into LocalHelp07:54
rob^how stupid can you be?07:54
Burgundaviarob^, that was very very rude07:54
BurgundaviaI ask you to retract that07:55
vendaWhere is local help being developed07:55
rob^well, really.. you dont get your own way so you "fork" it07:55
Burgundaviacurrent, in the head of mpt and myself07:55
Burgundaviarob^, again, I ask you to retract your statement07:55
rob^you really are childish07:55
vendaBurgundavia: why fork?07:55
Burgundaviaplease don't call me names07:55
Burgundaviabecause I disagree with where the doc is going07:55
Burgundaviathere is a place for both dcos07:56
rob^you mean: you cant work with others so you go off on your own07:56
Burgundaviano07:56
rob^yes07:56
vendaBurgundavia: so how will the content of the document differ?07:56
BurgundaviaI am respecting your right to work that the faqguide07:56
Burgundaviampt and I are going to hash out between LocalHelp and CommonProblemsGuideSpec07:57
rob^no, your forking the faqguide because you didnt get your own way07:57
Burgundaviarob^, no, I am not07:57
rob^yes you are07:57
BurgundaviaI am forking the guide because I don't believe that it is going where I think we need a doc07:57
vendaBurgundavia: I realize the outline is different but how will the content differ?07:57
rob^its pretty silly, really07:57
rob^mate, you need to grow up07:57
Burgundaviarob^, I have respected you. Please don't call me names07:57
vendarob^: leave it please, he has the right to fork. Nothing anyone or any amount of moaning will do 07:58
vendaBurgundavia: <venda> Burgundavia: I realize the outline is different but how will the content differ?07:58
rob^thats the problem with ubuntu sometimes..07:58
Burgundaviarob^, the right to fork in an inherent right07:58
Burgundaviapart of the DFSG07:58
rob^people like Burgundavia 07:59
vendarob^: its a problem of FOSS in general07:59
Burgundaviarob^, please don't call me names07:59
thechitowncubsthis is ridiculous07:59
rob^well what did you expect?07:59
vendaBurgundavia: <venda> Burgundavia: I realize the outline is different but how will the content differ?07:59
rob^you didnt get your own way, so you chuck a childish hissy fit and fork it07:59
Burgundaviathe common problems guide/local help will be firmly targeted at Aunt Tillie07:59
Burgundaviarob^, that is rude. Again, I ask you to retract08:00
rob^had you have worked with others from the beginning this wouldnt have happened08:00
rob^its the truth, Burgundavia 08:00
BurgundaviaI am sorry I came late08:00
thechitowncubsrob^: how old are you?08:00
vendaBurgundavia: just /ignore him.08:00
rob^thechitowncubs, probably older then you08:00
thechitowncubsthen thats pretty sad08:00
vendaBurgundavia: I want to understand the difference and scope and angle of LocalHelp08:01
BurgundaviaLocalHelp is a spec developed by mpt08:01
vendaYes08:01
rob^I'm really starting to get sick of this joke that is the docteam..08:01
Burgundaviabasically reimagining our yelp front page08:01
vendaI have seen the spec08:01
BurgundaviaI had completely forgotten about it08:01
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Burgundaviabut mpt said that we should probably merge our ideas, as the outlines are basically identical08:02
vendaBurgundavia: yes08:02
Burgundaviayou can see my current spec at CommonProblemsGuideSpec08:02
vendaBurgundavia: yes I have seen that08:02
Burgundaviampt and I will bang heads together before the next meeting08:02
Burgundaviawhere we are going to discuss the yelp frontpage08:03
Burgundaviaand the various options08:03
vendaBurgundavia: how do you propose that this document will remodel the default yelp page?08:03
Burgundaviaonly if the docteam agrees08:03
Burgundaviathe doc will exist, regardless08:03
Burgundaviait is one option I intend to bring to the table next week08:03
vendaBurgundavia: I see the note on the meeting08:03
Burgundaviadid you have any thoughts about it?08:04
vendaIf I get it right, what you are proposing is that LocalHelp will be the default page of yelp, is that correct?08:05
Burgundaviathat is one of the ideas I intend to present08:05
vendaI need to visualize it08:05
vendamy concern with this approach is that it kind of blocks out other documents, like those from GNOME08:06
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Burgundaviaindeed08:07
vendaindeed what, indeed it will or indeed I do not visualize it yet :-)08:07
Burgundaviawe would need to make it easy to get to other docs08:08
robitaillewhat about the other docs currently in yelp's top page:  the about, release notes, user guide.   Shouldn't they be linked to from somewhere?08:08
robitailleor CommonProblemsGuideSpec will be an extra link there?08:08
vendaBurgundavia: I am not sure that is a good approach. I agree that the top page in yelp is not good, but it should not be replaced with a single document08:09
Burgundaviampt suggested that I merged CommonProblems into LocalHelp08:09
Burgundavianight robitaille 08:09
Burgundaviagood night, I should say08:09
vendaBurgundavia: would it not be better to just have a list of documents in the from page08:10
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robitaillebut local help seems rather long to be the top page in help.08:10
vendaBurgundavia: that way docs like release notes, User Guide, Quick Guide and Local Help and FAQ Guide share the top page08:11
vendaBurgundavia: and there are still links to GNOME docs and other docs08:11
Burgundaviait raises the ugly issue of finding help08:11
Burgundaviawhich a bunch of links really doesn't do08:12
robitaillevenda:  that I can see.08:12
Burgundaviamdke, you awake yet?08:12
robitailleany news on the front of a search engine for yelp? wasn't that been thrown upstream?08:12
vendaBurgundavia: yes, but I think that when people see clear links and titles on the yelp top page, with short abstracts, I think it will work08:12
Burgundaviarobitaille, there was a patch, but it was part of a larger patch08:13
Burgundaviaand thus was rejected08:13
robitaillesigh08:13
Burgundaviaand gnome is now past feature freeze for .1208:13
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robitaillebut the request was done before the freeze :)08:13
vendaBurgundavia: why dont you and mpt create a folder in trunk or branch and hack there?08:14
Burgundaviahttp://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-doc-devel-list/2005-July/msg00005.html08:14
Burgundaviawe might be able to locally patch yelp08:21
vendaBurgundavia: I am not sure that I would like to see the top page of Yelp replaced by one document. I think that page is a portal to all docs that are GNOME/Debian/GNU/Ubuntu/etc.08:24
Burgundaviaok08:24
Burgundaviaif we can do it right, it would be great08:24
vendasure no problem with a different approach08:24
venda[08:08]  <venda> Burgundavia: why dont you and mpt create a folder in trunk or branch and hack there?08:25
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jsgotangcovenda: ping?08:28
vendapong dong bong08:28
jsgotangcohehehe i'll pm you08:28
vendawazup jsgotangco 08:28
vendakk08:29
jsgotangcohmmm room is quiet at this time...08:31
Burgundaviayes08:31
robitailleit wasn't quiet earlier....08:33
Burgundaviarofl08:34
robitaillewhat's the time of the next doc-team meeting?  /topic on ubuntu-meeting and the wiki are 8 hours apart09:07
jsgotangco14UTC09:07
robitailleok09:07
jsgotangcowe switch from 14UTC and 22UTC09:07
Burgundaviaouch09:08
Burgundavia7 am09:08
jsgotangcodude09:08
jsgotangcoi attend 6am meetings09:08
jsgotangco:P09:08
Burgundaviatrue09:08
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robitailletime to go to bed and into vacation mode.  I'll see you all in a week once I'm  back in town.09:15
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Burgundaviasee you all sunday09:16
robitailleI'll have at the ferry terminal (we're going to Galiano)09:17
robitaille/s/have/wave09:17
robitailleis the market on Saturday or Sunday at Saltspring?09:17
jsgotangconice people will be having a a good weekend except me09:17
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rwabelmdke: thanks02:25
rwabelmdke: I just came to me mind, that we could or should write somewhere thanks to the ubuntu forum and from whereever we have found howto's and help. what do you think?02:29
mdkesure02:29
mdkealso a link to the howto index on the forum02:29
rwabelwhere is the best place to write it?02:30
mdkenot sure, first paragraph?02:30
rwabelthat sounds good for me02:31
rwabelcan you do that? I'll then add the ressource02:31
mdkei don't think "thanks" is needed02:31
mdkeonly a link02:31
rwabelwell I've also found some help in the german and french forum/wiki02:31
mdkegood02:31
rwabelcan you make the change in the first paragraph?02:32
rwabelI'll add the other links 02:32
mdkei'll have a look02:32
rwabelthanks02:32
mdkethe page should only link to english language docs tho02:32
rwabelthat's kinda a problem02:32
mdkethe other language pages should link to the other wikis and forums02:32
mdkea problem?02:33
rwabelright, but it's somehow not fair to "copy" from a french forum and not mention it02:33
mdkethat's not true02:33
rwabelno?02:33
mdkeits all opensource02:33
mdketoo many references to where the docs came from will dilute the page02:33
mdkewhat we want is to have a page which is totally focused on documentation IMHO02:33
rwabelright02:34
mdkeso links to other useful english language docs is ok, but if we keep saying where information has come from, that will not work02:34
rwabelI was just a bit concerned about beeing unfair.02:34
rwabelthen it's okay02:35
mdkerwabel, if you take information from places, note it on the page that the documentation is on (e.g. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BackupYourSystem)02:35
mdkethat way, authors get credit02:35
mdkebut not the index page02:35
rwabelok02:35
highvoltagewhere do I send the gpg-signed code of conduct? JaneC?02:36
rwabelsometimes it's hard to find the original source :-)02:36
mdkehighvoltage, to mako02:36
highvoltagemdke: thanks02:36
rwabelhighvoltage: good question...and how does it work?02:36
mdkehighvoltage, its all on the community/process page02:36
mdkehighvoltage, you can also upload it to launchpad02:36
mdkehttp://www.ubuntulinux.org/community/processes/02:36
rwabelmdke: I'll have a look at the whole code od conduct once...it's a bit complilcated as it seems in the first place02:37
rwabelmdke: about the BackupYourSystem, he copied it 1:1 :-) most of my added howto's are a bit adapted or "improved"02:38
rwabelmdke: but I'll see where I can put the thanks02:39
mdkei copied it 1:1 ;)02:39
highvoltagemdke: thanks again. i can't believe i haven't seen that before.02:40
mdkeput thanks at the bottom of the guide02:40
mdkehighvoltage, np, the website is quite helpful :)02:40
rwabelmdke: ahh ok02:42
highvoltagesorry, perhaps this is another silly question. where's the ubuntite wiki page? i couldn't find it with the search.02:46
mdkenot sure there is one02:48
mdkeif you sign the code of conduct and upload to launchpad, it will 02:49
mdkecall you an "ubuntite"02:49
rwabelhow do I sign it?02:50
rwabelI got the .txt.gpg file02:51
highvoltagehow do i upload my gpg fingerprint to the ubuntu site? I tried gpg --send-keys $fingerprint, but it didn't work.02:56
highvoltageit gives a list like this:02:56
highvoltagegpg: "29D6" not a key ID: skipping02:56
highvoltagegpg: "6CBF" not a key ID: skipping02:56
mdkehighvoltage, which ubuntu site?02:59
mdkeremember the first rule: don't upload your key until you're at least intermediate in the ways of gpg :)02:59
highvoltage<sigh> ok. i'm a bit overeager to sign. i'll guess I'll wait then03:00
highvoltagethe one i tried was on launchpad, and it complained about my fingerprint not being inhttp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?search=0x6CBF29D6&op=get03:01
mdkehighvoltage, ok fair enough. You need to upload the key to a keyserver before launchpad accepts it... but its not a good idea until you've read all the gpg documentation, because if you get something wrong, it'll be permanent03:01
mdkei'm passing on lessons owned from my own mistakes here03:02
highvoltageok, i'll take that advice.03:02
nalioth_zZzhighvoltage: i believe you upload your fingerprint via launchpad03:39
naliothand yes, education re gpg is a great investment (i've made a few mistakes, too)03:40
highvoltagenalioth: yes, i'm going to wait a while before doing that. at the moment i'm getting used to thunderbird behaving a bit differently.03:42
highvoltageperhaps this is a good time to get used to mutt.. hehe.03:42
naliothhighvoltage: are you gonna be using a gpg frontend (kgpg, seahorse, etc)?03:46
highvoltagenalioth: i don't think so. at the moment i'm just using the gpg command as in the gpg manual.03:47
naliothhighvoltage: CLI is always best03:53
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mdkefor gpg cli is the way forward03:54
highvoltagei'm very neutral when it comes to cli vs gui.03:55
highvoltagei enjoy using both, although I probably use cli most of the time.03:55
mdkegui is important for ubuntu03:56
highvoltagei advocate free software a lot, so it's important for me to have all the great gui software to show off.03:56
mdkebut for gpg the cli teaches you what is going on, and there is no good gpg frontend for gnome imho03:56
HrdwrBoBno, there isn't03:56
HrdwrBoBgpg on the cli is also fairly cryptic03:57
HrdwrBoBit requires knowledge of the way the whole thing works03:57
mdkeyep03:57
naliothand sometimes the GUI fails miserably03:57
HrdwrBoBwhich isn't totally a bad thing, but not the way you really want an app to be03:57
mdkewell i think enigmail is ok03:57
mdkebut seahorse blows03:57
naliothenigmail is transparent03:58
naliothyou guys know about biglumber?04:00
mdkenot much04:00
highvoltagenope04:00
mdkewhat do you wanna know/04:00
naliothis the "create a keyring" option worth doing? i guess thats so folks can sign your key online?04:01
mdkenot sure04:01
mdkemaybe its for creating a web of trust04:01
naliothi prefer to sign keys on my box, then --send-keys the whole mess04:02
mdkewhere is the create a keyring option?04:02
naliothi just made a new entry for myself on biglumber and it keeps goin thru different options for me04:03
mdkehmm04:03
naliothon your edit page, i'd assume04:03
mdkenot sure mate04:04
naliothbest to leave it blank (i'd rather users USE their CLI, heh04:04
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jsgotangcoman the DDP list is riddled with spam heh04:57
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