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Burglaptopmdke: didn't you want to speak to rob1?12:49
mdkeBurglaptop, for like the last 3 weeks :)01:38
mdkerob1, you alive?01:38
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Bonzodogum01:47
Bonzodogjust before you go01:47
mdkehi01:47
mdkei never actually go to bed the first time anyway01:48
Bonzodoghow do you feel about the doc?01:48
BonzodogI'm going to write a mission statement on in 01:48
mdkei hate the way you guys call it "the doc"01:48
Bonzodogand about what it does, where we go01:48
mdkeotherwise, I've posted my feelings all over the forum01:49
Bonzodogit's easier than UDSF01:49
mdkei think it's a shame you guys don't use the Ubuntu wiki, but I accept your decision to keep it separate01:49
KingBahamutwell actually01:49
KingBahamutUDSF has a cool Robotech like tone to it01:49
KingBahamutjust doesnt roll out of the mouth quite right01:49
mdkeheh01:50
Bonzodogwell we feel that it serves a slightly different purpose than the wiki01:50
KingBahamutregardless, mark asked for an assesment in the meeting01:50
KingBahamutfor the next meeting on it 01:50
KingBahamutfrom both sides 01:50
Bonzodogour's is more about pulling documentation off the forums - how-to's etc01:51
KingBahamutall we want to do is prep them for you guys 01:51
Bonzodogand collecting this info in a central pool01:51
Bonzodogso there is a definitive archive01:51
mdkethat can't be the only purpose01:51
Bonzodogthink of it like - the main wiki is the 'notice board'01:52
KingBahamutit isnt01:52
mdkebecause otherwise, it would make sense to use https://wiki.ubuntu.com/forum01:52
mdkegiven that wikimedia uses a different markup01:52
KingBahamutthere are other forms of data01:52
Bonzodogand we are more the 'library'01:52
KingBahamutthat couldnt possibly fit an Official status01:52
mdkeKingBahamut, the Ubuntu wiki is not "official" either, anyone can post to it01:52
KingBahamutno I understand that 01:53
KingBahamutnever questioned it 01:53
KingBahamutagain the original concept of putting it up was to move all pertinent forum data 01:53
KingBahamutrelated to process in an organized fashion01:53
BonzodogI like to think that we have a definitive role to play in archiving/selecting useful forum material01:53
KingBahamutAndrew aka Azz01:53
mdkeas I said, I accept your decision01:53
KingBahamutand many others attempt to motivate users to move data to the wiki01:53
KingBahamutmany dont 01:53
mdkehowever, I personally believe that wiki.ubuntu.com/forum would suffice for that01:53
Bonzodogmost if not all of our material relates to the forums01:54
KingBahamutis that data to be lost because the OP01:54
mdkeBonzodog, no it doesn't, it relates to Ubuntu01:54
KingBahamutdoesnt want to move it?01:54
mdkeKingBahamut, which data would be lost?01:54
KingBahamutStuff written by users who would never move data to the wiki 01:54
KingBahamutor want to 01:54
mdkethat argument applies to both wikis01:55
mdkein both cases you need people to do the moving01:55
Bonzodogthis is why i think we can move data between both01:55
KingBahamutmost of the people who move data to the UDSF do it with the realization it will go elsewhere later 01:55
mdkeKingBahamut, e.g.?01:56
KingBahamutmany of them just dont want to put the effort into 01:56
mdkeBonzodog, that is why a section of the main wiki would work better, because it is the same markup01:56
Bonzodogand we ourselves are linking back to the wiki in some cases01:56
KingBahamutmoving it elsewhere 01:56
mdkeor alternatively, another moin server01:56
KingBahamutor that the opinion that I get 01:56
KingBahamutI think its desireability01:56
KingBahamutbut I have no control over the user01:56
KingBahamutso 01:56
KingBahamutIt should be easily feasible to allow the move of such data01:57
KingBahamutIll even assign 3 members 01:57
KingBahamutto do it01:57
KingBahamutonce the liscensing issues are corrected if you like 01:57
mdkeok, well you asked for my opinion. I don't want to keep talking about it because I've spent a lot of hours doing that already. My opinion is, go ahead, do it, but i personally would use the section of the wiki dedicated to the forum directly, without a separate go between in a different markup01:57
KingBahamutaye capn01:57
Bonzodogthe teams have to work together01:58
mdkeyeah, I'm glad that we can at least do that01:58
KingBahamutlike I say 01:58
KingBahamutIll devote half my team01:58
KingBahamutto move the data 01:58
KingBahamutfor you guys 01:58
KingBahamutI dont have an issue with that, and it will happen like it or not 01:58
KingBahamutone way or the other 01:59
Bonzodogand sabdfl has a good point about us maybe coming together in some way01:59
KingBahamutyou should benefit from it just as much as I do 01:59
Bonzodogso we are all part of the same team01:59
KingBahamutI dont want a stigma to occur just because a user prefers one place over the other 01:59
KingBahamutin where he puts it 01:59
mdkethe thing is02:00
mdkeinstead of having half a team doing one thing and half a team moving that over to another place, you'd save a lot of time working on one thing02:01
mdkewhy can't we just combine our efforts?02:01
BonzodogI think in the end that will have to happen, we need to find an easier way of doing it02:02
mdkei don't think the user would mind :) He'd get a better end result02:02
mdkeBonzodog, ok, let's wait and see how it goes02:02
BonzodogI personally like mediawiki as software02:02
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Bonzodogit is a ver powerful bit of kit 02:03
mdkeyeah it's nice02:03
mdkedon't encourage Burglaptop though, keep it quiet02:03
Bonzodogwikipedia haven't helped because their management of it has been poor02:03
Bonzodogeven though they wrote it02:03
mdkeMoin is great too :)02:04
Burglaptopugh02:04
mdkelots of great stuff02:04
BonzodogI have noticed some basic similarities between the two markups02:04
Bonzodogas i have a wiki login myself02:04
Bonzodogfor the main wiki02:05
mdkeyeah they are both easy to learn02:05
Bonzodoghave you seen my wiki homepage?02:05
mdkenope02:05
BurglaptopBonzodog: they are similiar enough that a automatic script can convert them02:05
Bonzodoghttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bonzodog02:05
mdkei see it02:06
Burglaptopmdke: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiflow02:36
mdkebookmarking, will read anon02:37
Bonzodogmdke; am talking to others about how define the UDSF02:43
mdkeok02:43
Bonzodogthis is what we have come to02:43
mdkebrainstorm it up on the wiki02:43
Bonzodoghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledgebase02:43
Bonzodogis a basic definition of what people in UDSF see themselves doing..porting info from the forums, not written by themselves, and creating a knowledgebase02:44
mdkeall wikis are knowledgebases02:44
mdkeincluding the main Ubuntu one, if you want it to be02:45
BurglaptopBonzodog: you should talk to jbailey, he has a similar idea for LP02:45
BonzodogKassetra is defining it nicely02:50
Bonzodogi'm talking to her at the moment02:50
mdkemake sure you work in writing somewhere02:50
Bonzodogbut shes in one hell of a mood02:50
BonzodogI will do.02:51
Bonzodogin fact..02:51
Bonzodoghrm..02:51
Bonzodogcan i create an item on the official wiki about it?02:51
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mdkeBonzodog, you can create whatever you like in the wiki02:51
mdkeespecially this02:51
Bonzodogthank you02:51
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Bonzodogreight, I'm off to bed03:06
Bonzodogwill be back on in morning03:06
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Madpilothi all04:07
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MadpilotBurglaptop: how're you doing?05:07
BurglaptopMadpilot: better05:08
Burglaptopboss wants to come to work tomorrow for a few hours before I go out to the staff party05:08
Burglaptoptold him that travel is what hurts, not being anywhere05:09
Madpilotouch. 05:09
Madpilotif  you're still popping painkillers, the staff party might not be much fun either...05:09
BurglaptopI will speak to him tomorrow and hopefully he will understand05:09
Burglaptopthe staff party will be a small affair at dinner05:10
Burglaptopnothing much05:10
Madpilotnot a geekish boozefest? ;)05:10
Burglaptopnope05:10
Burglaptopall of our respective spouses will be there05:10
Madpilothow civilized05:11
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Madpilothttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDSF  <-- odd - but at least they're talking to the DocTeam now...05:15
BurglaptopMadpilot: yes, Bonzodog was in here previously05:30
BurglaptopMadpilot: there was a cool link I gave mdke earlier about workflow stuff that mediawiki was considering05:31
Madpilotthe Wikiflow one?05:31
Burglaptopit was on meta.wikimedia.org05:32
Madpilothttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiflow <-- this one, right? about editing & such05:32
Burglaptopyep05:33
Burglaptopthat is pretty much exactly what we need05:33
Madpilotlooks interesting05:34
Burglaptopif we a simple script and two wiki engines, we could do some of what that does right away05:35
Burglaptopsimply create the doc on doc.u.c and then publish it to help.u.c05:35
Madpilotyikes - that means running three wikis at the same time...05:37
Burglaptopyes05:37
Burglaptopone for the the develoers, which we don't care about05:37
Burglaptopand two for us05:37
Burglaptopbut the help wiki would be restricted editing05:38
Burglaptoponly the people in the wiki group on LP would be able to edit the article05:38
Madpilotso wiki.u.c would just be the devel/community stuff05:38
Burglaptopyes05:38
Burglaptoplaptop testing team, etc05:38
Burglaptopsadly moin is actually easier to do a rough hack, becasue of the mysql database that mediawiki has05:38
Madpilotwell, fire an email off to the list, and restart the "what do we do with the wiki" debate again ;)05:39
Burglaptopbut mediawiki allows you turn off editing to all articles but allow anon editing to talk pages05:39
Burglaptopwith one simple switch05:39
Burglaptopto be clear, the article would still be able to be edited by admins05:40
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jjessegood morning, when someone has a chance could take a look at the new kubuntu/releasenotes i've uploaded and comment on them for me04:12
jjessein trunk/kubuntu/releasenotes/C/releasenotes.xml04:12
jjesseit validates now04:12
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k31thyo05:47
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jsgotangcohey all06:18
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jjessejsgotangco: if you have a second can you review kubuntu/releasenotes ?06:43
jsgotangcojjesse, now?06:50
jjessedoesn't have to be now, but i'm uploaded a lot of changes for dapper06:50
jjesseso when you have some time06:50
jjessestill more changes will come, i have Riddell looking at them as well06:51
jsgotangcooh yeah, i saw the commit list06:51
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jsgotangcook i gotta sleep06:52
jsgotangcolater06:52
jjessethanks have a good sleep06:52
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mdkeaha09:01
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mdkehighvoltage, i noticed that https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingRecords is edubuntu specific, do you mind if I rename it? I'll fix the links09:01
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highvoltagemdke: sure09:05
highvoltagemdke: you can let go now :)09:05
mdkeoh sorry09:06
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jjessefear the master of the wiki09:13
Madpilothmm?09:14
jjessemdke was named master of the wiki in the community council meeting :)09:14
jjessejust giving him a hard time for his bugging highvoltage 09:14
Madpilotcool - I had to be at work during the last one...09:15
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jjesse:)09:19
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jjesseno please let go, i want to leave work :)09:21
theCoremdke, as the master of the wiki, what are your new responsibilities ?09:21
theCoremdke, btw congrat:) !09:21
jjessewas sabdfl being sarcastic or???09:21
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theCores/asking/himself/09:23
theCorei'm just confused n/m09:24
theCoreso, what is the joke ?09:24
jjesseyesterday at the community council meeting mdke was talking about the license on the wiki and safdl menioned something about mdke being the master of the wiki09:25
jjessei don't know exactly what it means, but was giving him a hard time yesterday09:25
theCoreah :)09:27
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mdkelong night at work for you09:29
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highvoltagemdke: sorry, lost my connection there for a while09:34
highvoltagemdke: i looked at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingRecords, but it seems that it's already removed?09:34
mdkeyeah i moved it09:34
highvoltageok, np.09:35
Madpilotmdke: without a redirect?09:35
mdkeyes09:35
mdkei fixed all the links on the wiki09:35
mdkehmm09:36
mdkeproblem with a redirect is that the point of moving the page was that that page remains available for non-specific meeting records09:36
Madpilotthere is a web outside the Ubuntu wiki, you know ;)09:36
mdkei'm aware of that yeah09:36
Madpilotdon't make it an auto-redirect, just have a link to the new Edubuntu page, or other meeting-record pages09:37
mdkeMadpilot, google has nothing on that page...09:37
mdkebut maybe you're right09:37
Madpilotanyway, need to go. see you all later.09:38
mdkecya09:38
mdkeI'll redirect it to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingAgendas09:38
mdkehow about that?09:38
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Madpilotsure09:39
Madpilotmust go...09:39
k31thyo09:46
k31thlong tme no speak09:46
mdkehello09:46
k31thi hope to do some doc work for ubuntu, if thats possible ?09:47
mdkeyou betcha09:47
mdkeyou know more or less how we work?09:47
k31thI have been using it mainly as a server and i will be using it more at work as soon as i take over in jan 09:47
mdkeah cool09:47
mdkethe serverguide needs plenty of love09:48
k31ththen im stopping using centos and starting to use ubuntu09:48
k31thmdke: sweet 09:48
k31thim not to sure how you guys work tbh im signed upto the mailing list tho09:48
k31thiv just had no time lately 09:48
mdkeok cool09:48
mdkea good place to start is https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocteamGettingStarted09:49
k31thwhen every thing calm down i can do some in my spare time at work between work :D 09:49
k31thahh nice ill have a read right after i decide how im going to backup all these remote boxes :D09:50
k31thi need to find a way of backing up MS Exchange Database with a OS backup utility :D09:51
mdkegreat09:51
k31thone thing i will do is write some thing for bacula in ubuntu atm it is not covered09:52
k31thas far as i know ?09:52
mdkewhat is that09:52
k31thits a OS backup util09:52
mdkeaha09:52
k31thhttp://bacula.org 09:53
mdkegood candidate for a wiki page09:53
k31thmdke: wiki page would be pufect 09:53
k31thpurfect09:53
mdkeahhhh09:54
mdkek31th, you use dovecot?09:54
k31thi have used it 09:54
k31that work we are using some thing else. Iv used it set it up in ubuntu before09:55
mdkei've been struggling with it ;)09:55
k31thwat aspect of it ?09:55
mdkecouldn't connect to the imaps server09:55
mdkejust realised I had a stray sasl process blocking it09:56
k31thyou check logs ?09:56
k31thahh 09:56
mdkethe damn logs were totally empty09:56
k31thactually talking of imap09:56
mdkei was kinda wondering what the best imap server might be for Ubuntu09:56
mdkeits the first time I've set up email09:56
k31thi tried conencting to our server at work the other day from home. and it just timed out ! thats using mozilla thunderbird as the client 09:57
mdkebrb just rebooting09:57
k31thmdke: ell iv used courier09:58
k31thwell*09:58
mdkethat is not in main on Ubuntu iirc10:00
mdkeheard it's good tho10:06
k31thmdke: hang on10:08
k31thits univ i think?10:08
mdkeyes10:08
mdkeok dovecot is working now anyhow :)10:08
k31thskills10:09
k31thim going to setup a mail server on this box when i have time!10:09
k31thmdke: not a backup guru by any chance are you ???10:09
mdkenope10:10
jjessei just got qemu working today so i'm running dapper in a virtual session :)10:12
jjesseso i can stay live on the daily builds :)10:12
mdkerock10:12
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k31thOdd my dad just came in asked me if i was going out i said no, and he gave me a beer 10:26
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k31thanyone alive ?11:09
mdkeyus11:09
manickayeah11:13
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