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LaserJockmdke: ok, I'm out for a while but I sent the list a summary of what I found with the book03:31
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robotgeekhmm, much ado about nothing04:05
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Madpilotrobotgeek, inspired by Mr. Tangye's latest missive? :P04:08
robotgeekyeah04:09
robotgeekhe speaks much like the boss in Office Space04:10
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MadpilotI couldn't resist any more - I had to weigh in on Mr. Tangye's meanderings... ;)04:20
robotgeekhmm, lemme ask gmail again04:21
Madpilotit's another "show us the code" post, which I predict he'll ignore - again04:22
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robotgeeknicely worded04:23
Madpilotthnx04:24
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robitailleMadpilot: https://launchpad.net/people/davidtangye     I'm not sure he can edit in the wiki, at least not when he created that page05:01
Madpilotsigh...05:02
robotgeekwhy don't people just cut the crap and edit the wiki05:04
Madpilotlooks like he's having some login trouble05:04
MadpilotPEBCAK?05:04
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robotgeekhe edited the wiki, i think05:04
Madpilotyeah, I suspect that lp.net rant is out of date05:05
Madpilothis nick appears in RecentChanges05:06
robitaillehttp://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Main/DavidTangye05:07
robitailleso obviously he knows how to deal with a wiki in general :)05:07
robotgeekhe edited the wiki article, and it was a job well done. but i can't deal with all the  BS which comes with it05:09
robitailleah...he is a real estate agent.   Maybe that's why he quickly goes into a sales pitch mode (and focus on your customers) in his emails: http://home.iprimus.com.au/DavidTangye/re/index.html05:10
Madpilotthat might also explain the preoccupation with buzzwords ;)05:10
robotgeekheh05:11
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Madpilotrobotgeek, ping05:38
robotgeekMadpilot: pong05:40
Madpilotgot time to mess with cover scripting ideas?05:41
robotgeekokay, lets start05:41
Madpilotjust a sec, looking at some of the translated guides in svn05:45
Madpilotbleh - Matt was right, the entities aren't translated - it's all just plain text. Blast.05:47
robotgeekso what?05:50
Madpilotjust grabbing &ubuntu; and &dg-title; and &ubuntu-doc-team; entities would have been easier, wouldn't it?05:51
robotgeekMadpilot: i am trying to read the xml file directly05:52
Madpilotthe trouble is telling the script where to look, though05:54
Madpilotfor the translated versions of "Ubuntu Documentation Project" and "Desktop Guide"05:55
robotgeekMadpilot: arent they in desktopguide/language/ ?05:57
Madpilotyes - I'm just trying to find an easy-to-find string we can grab05:58
robotgeekMadpilot: what do you need in the xml, <title> 05:59
Madpilottitle of the actual guide06:00
robotgeekso in a particular guide, it would be in desktopguide.xml 06:02
robotgeektitle tag under book06:02
Madpilotrobotgeek, gah - thanks - I was looking in all sorts of difficult places. Doh!06:03
Madpilotit also looks like "Ubuntu Documentation Team" isn't often translated, actually06:03
robotgeekbrbm phone06:04
Madpilot...the French translation hasn't even changed "Ubuntu Desktop Guide" into French...06:04
Madpilotrobitaille, your response to that "I'll take my toys and go home" bit was far, far more diplomatic than mine (which remained unsent, mercifully!) ;)06:06
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jsgotangcohey06:14
Madpilothi06:16
robitailleMadpilot:  yeah, I decided to play the nice email game.    But that's most probably my first and last email in that discussion.  I don't have much time to waste of this 06:18
jsgotangcoeh?06:19
jsgotangco:)06:19
Madpilotjsgotangco, the latest round of Mr. "all your docs are wrong" Tangye's emails... :P06:20
jsgotangcofor some reason robitaille's emails always go to my trash06:20
jsgotangcoer junk i man06:20
jsgotangcono that's too civil!06:23
jsgotangco:)06:23
Madpilotheh. the CoC is a terrible restraint on a good howling flamewar, isn't it? :P06:25
robitaillejsgotangco:  my email are so bad?  Or maybe I don't write enough of them, so your spam catcher doesn't have enough training :)06:26
jsgotangcolol i already whitelisted you heh06:27
robotgeekMadpilot: back, sorry. phone06:27
robitailleMadpilot:  I have a few other mailing list where I can participate in good old flame wars.  06:27
jsgotangcohe wants more structured flow06:27
Madpilotlikewise. There's always Usenet if I need a real flamewar. ;)06:27
jsgotangcoheh06:27
robitaillehe needs to learn that we are part of teams06:28
robitailleand the team is more important than any of us06:28
robitailleI'm not sure he seems ready for the concepts06:29
robitailles/the/these06:29
Madpilotno, he needs to actually produce some docs, not just talk.06:29
robitailletrue06:29
jsgotangcohe should just make a spec06:29
robitaillein 3 parts? :)06:30
jsgotangcosure06:30
jsgotangcohah06:30
robitaillebut true, most of what he wrote should be a spec06:30
jsgotangcowould anyone want to contribute to my food product spec06:32
jsgotangcoheh06:32
Madpilothmm - I need to start baking again ;) it's so much cheaper than raiding the bakery on my coffee breaks06:32
robitaillebug 42183   (the last paragraph) :)06:34
robitaillehttps://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/4218306:34
robitaillethat's our target customer06:35
jsgotangcothat's not even a good bug report06:35
Madpilotthat's one heck of a target...06:35
robitailleI thought it was funny.  But it is a bad one....06:36
jsgotangcowe get lots of WTF bugs06:37
jsgotangcoi only focus on xorg06:37
jsgotangcoits more than enough06:37
robitailleMy evening are full of bad reports, and need info reports, and "thanks for your report, but..." reports.  The joy of bug triage06:38
jsgotangcoyeah06:38
jsgotangcotargetting dupes is much harder even if you dont focus on a subset06:39
robitaillethis week I'm focussing on old motu bugs.  I have closed quite a few  06:39
jsgotangcoim going to finish up my commits for edubuntu-doc06:43
jsgotangcobrb06:43
robotgeekMadpilot: http://rafb.net/paste/results/5CnWNf10.html06:51
robotgeekmaybe i should just grep for the thing06:53
Madpilotrobotgeek, I saved that as 'covertext', made it executable, and got this: http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/1311106:58
robotgeekMadpilot: yeah, i found that it happens if have not translation, fixing06:59
Madpilotwhich languages does it work in?07:00
robotgeekMadpilot: say pt_BR, what do you want?07:00
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robotgeekit says, <title> translated text <phrase> ubuntu </phrase> </title>07:01
Madpilotcool, it works in pt_BR - "Guia do Desktop07:02
Madpilot"07:02
robotgeekMadpilot: just tell me what outputs you need in both cases pt_BR / other07:03
Madpilotwhere we don't have a properly translated title, I'm not sure what we can do, TBH07:04
Madpilotbeyond get in touch with the translation teams and get them to modify their docs again07:04
robotgeekMadpilot: if tehre is no translation, i can make it o/p only Ubuntu Desktop Guide07:05
Madpilotyeah, it'll have to just stay as default07:05
robotgeekMadpilot: do you want Guia La Desktop + Ubuntu or just Guia La Desktop07:07
Madpilotthe "Ubuntu 6.06" text isn't going to change - we just need that 2nd line "Desktop Guide"07:08
robotgeekokay, i am not seeing what you are seeing. which translation are you loking at?07:09
MadpilotI'm not, actually. Just looking at the cover itself.07:10
MadpilotCurrently we've got three lines of text on it: "Ubuntu 6.06", "Desktop Guide", and "Ubuntu Documentation Project" - but only the 2nd & 3rd need translations07:11
robotgeeki am not sure where Ubuntu Documentation Project is translated07:12
Madpilotneither am I :(07:12
robotgeekhowever, there is some more useful information in the omf file07:12
robotgeekhttp://rafb.net/paste/results/Ga2Pgb64.html is without that error, still does nothing more useful07:13
Madpilotactually, it looks like we use "...Documentation Team" rather than "...Project" in the guides07:14
robotgeekMadpilot: stroke of luck, the omf files have translated names :)07:16
Madpilotrobotgeek, can you grab the <creator> tag stuff from the omf, and then remove the email address & extra stuff to supply the trans. of "Ubuntu Documentation Team"?07:17
Madpilotactually, it's "...Project" in the omf files - go figure07:18
robotgeekyeah, that should be simple07:18
Madpilotrecommend a good basic intro to programming book? I *almost* grok this stuff, and wish I did... ;)07:19
robotgeekMadpilot: this is all straight outta dive into python07:20
robotgeekxml processing chapter :)07:20
Madpilotcool, I apt-got that a while ago, might actually read it :)07:22
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robotgeekalmost done, fighting some ascii issues :)07:28
Madpilotsweet07:29
robotgeekMadpilot: http://rafb.net/paste/results/ZYzKcv85.html07:35
jsgotangcohmm i feel so hot inside of me i had too much salsa :/07:37
robotgeekMadpilot: http://rafb.net/paste/results/5nu4uv52.html sorry07:38
robhi guys07:39
robotgeekhey rob 07:39
robthe lulu thing is exciting, and I haven't done all that much lately on the guides :)07:39
robotgeeki havent done anything lately too07:40
Madpilotrobotgeek, got an error this time: http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/1311307:40
robI've stated throwing a few ideas and some code together for the online docbook editor I was talking about a little while ago07:40
robotgeekMadpilot: did you get it from the second link?07:41
Madpilotyes07:41
robotgeekcause it works for me, can you paste it as text, save it and run it?07:42
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Madpilotsure, just a sec07:42
robotgeekrob: what you doing that in?07:43
robrobotgeek, python07:43
Madpilotrobotgeek, never mind, it worked the 2nd time - I might have been using the wrong pastebin's content07:45
robotgeekrob: cool07:45
robotgeekMadpilot: i'm trying to get rid of the hardcoding, moment07:45
robin a few weeks time (depending on my spare time) I'll hopefully have something to show everyone07:45
LaserJockrob: cool, look forward to it07:46
jsgotangcorob: make sure its not in 3 parts07:46
jsgotangcoheh07:46
jsgotangcokidding07:46
LaserJocklol07:46
robhehe07:46
LaserJockand make sure you never really get to the third part07:46
jsgotangcohaha07:46
robI plan on showing the code :)07:46
LaserJockbut talk alot about the third part, even though you never really ever get there07:46
jsgotangcothen at the end decide its just a waste of time07:47
roblil07:47
roberr07:47
roblol07:47
LaserJockargh, that guy is quite interesting07:47
LaserJockI kept thinking, "You dope, you think I don't think about the user when I write"07:47
robI don't know about 'interesting', defiantly rude though07:48
LaserJocklike it is a novel concept to try to write for users07:48
robotgeekMadpilot: do you also want to me to get rid of the brackets too? ( blah )07:48
Madpilotrobotgeek, yes07:48
MadpilotLaserJock, my target audience is me, circa June 2005, when I'd had Ubuntu on this box about a week :P07:49
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LaserJockI should just write for sabdfl because he can sponsor me to the dev conference ;-)07:57
robotgeekMadpilot: http://rafb.net/paste/results/JKdPCD88.html07:57
LaserJockwho cares about the users. Obviously we don't  (in the eyes of some apparently)07:57
jsgotangcolol07:58
robotgeekwe dont' care about users since they don't pay us. there, i said it07:58
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jsgotangcoyeah users are basically PEBKAC07:58
Madpilotrobotgeek, works nicely (the script, that is) ;)07:59
mgalvin*cough*we are apparently chimps in a psychological experiment where dave pokes us to see if he can annoy us*cough*07:59
robotgeekMadpilot: i just hacked something together, i am guessing i'll come up with something totally different07:59
robotgeekMadpilot: anything else you need?08:00
manickacan I quote you on that robotgeek?08:00
jsgotangcolol08:00
LaserJockmgalvin: hehe, that must be it08:00
Madpilotmgalvin, it's working :P08:00
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manickaI pick the best times to drop in...08:00
manicka:)08:01
Madpilotrobotgeek, it's good so far - now we need to get the translated text into the SVGs and get Inkscape to output new PNGs08:01
robotgeekMadpilot: you need something for the title also, right?08:01
Madpilotrobotgeek, yes, we need the title string too08:02
Madpilotrobotgeek, <title> in the omf file08:03
robotgeekMadpilot: done08:05
Madpilotnice08:05
robotgeekhttp://rafb.net/paste/results/VR6fHp60.html08:06
robotgeekthat code is of a hackish quality, but it works 08:09
Madpilotyes, works here08:09
robotgeekcool, let's move to next step then08:10
Madpilotrobotgeek, http://www.warbard.ca/temp/Ubuntu_SVG/  <-- SVG files for the cover images08:11
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Madpilotrobotgeek, We're interested in the text in the 2nd & 3rd sets of <tspan> tags in the SVGs08:14
jsgotangcowhat are you guys doing?08:15
Madpilotjsgotangco, translations on the cover images08:16
jsgotangcofor lulu?08:16
Madpilotjsgotangco, getting the translated strings from our XML, editing the SVG files, then creating PNGs for Lulu08:16
robotgeekMadpilot: hmm, i'm having difficult seeing this without folding, one moment08:19
robotgeekMadpilot: okay, found it. obviously, this will be different in other documents?08:28
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Madpilotrobotgeek, provided there's only ever three text areas, the two we care about should always be 2nd & 3rd (unless someone totally rebuilds the SVGs, then all bets are off...)08:29
robotgeekkk, then we can hardcode without worry (i hope)08:30
mgalvinnight all08:30
Madpilotfor now, anyway08:30
jsgotangcohey the ubuntu book is now in amazon08:30
Madpilotthe official one? Yeah, it's been there a few weeks at least08:31
jsgotangcoit has corey and jonathan at the front08:31
jsgotangcoi just saw it today08:31
robitaillewow...a search for ubuntu in amazon turns out a few to-be-published books I didn't know about 08:35
jsgotangcoubuntu unleashed...08:38
robitaillenot surprising considering the apparent popularity of the distro.08:38
robitailleBut now that I think about it, I don't think I have ever bought a book about Linux.08:39
LaserJockI have a Red Hat 7.2 book08:39
jsgotangcoi have a core linux book08:39
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robitailleI got a couple of Unix book way when, but that's about it for purchases08:40
robitailles/way when/way back when08:40
jsgotangcoi have a nutshell book though which is very very useful08:40
LaserJockI have a little emacs booklet08:40
LaserJockI don't read it much since I mostly use vim now08:41
jsgotangcoi only use emacs for emacs-wiki and planner-el08:41
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robitailleI use vi most of the time08:42
LaserJockheh08:42
robitailleshe is the emacs type08:42
LaserJockI'd get into it with my advisor if he ever found out I was using vim08:42
robitailleand we are still married after all these years :)08:42
robotgeekMadpilot: dang it, the Kubuntu svn is slightly different08:43
robotgeeki'll come up with some code tommorow, too sleepy now08:43
Madpilotrobotgeek, hmm, tomorrow I'll bash at the SVG, see if we can't get better layout to make the script easier to use...08:44
robotgeekMadpilot: http://rafb.net/paste/results/2LQWPj81.html is what i hve till now08:44
robotgeeki'll try to get the element names using tagnames, it should be easier that way08:44
robotgeekand of course, writing it and renaming the damn thing08:45
Madpilotrobotgeek, nice work08:46
robotgeekMadpilot: don't really bother with the svg, the way i am doing it is not right 08:46
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Madpilotrobotgeek, OK, I'll leave it08:46
robotgeekcool, cya tommoro08:47
Madpilotnight08:47
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LaserJockrobotgeek: I'm interested in Python as well. I was thinking for edgy of making some scripts that would be useful for the doc team09:09
robLaserJock, what like?09:10
LaserJockxml validator, xml stripper (to plain text) I don't know, I'll have to think of something :-)09:12
robwell, as part of my online editor I'm planning on giving the ability to download in plain text09:13
robif you do I might steal it from you :)09:13
LaserJockI got a copy of Python Cookbook not to long ago and it was giving me ideas09:13
Madpilotwe've got a validator already, seems to work fairly well - you could work with Matt East on our convert-to-PDF stuff (not sure which tools he's using for that, actually)09:13
jsgotangcomake it something that'll give a hotdog sandwhich as output09:13
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LaserJockfood on the brain?09:14
robthere are actually some nice conversion tools available, see xmlto09:14
robconverts to all kinds of things (pdf, text, latex etc)09:14
LaserJockyeah, I was just thinking maybe we need to pull some things together so new people can just run a script or something09:15
LaserJockI don't know, I'll have to look into it more09:15
jsgotangcoi gotta go09:16
jsgotangcosee ya09:17
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mdkeLaser_away: fop can do xml to plain text12:29
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jsgotangcohey12:56
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kbrookshi :-)09:37
LaserJockhi kbrooks 09:37
LaserJockmdke: around?09:38
kbrooksLaserJock: whats up?09:38
LaserJockkbrooks: oh, I've always got things to do :-)09:39
LaserJockhow about yourself09:39
kbrooksLaserJock: nothing much. 09:39
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LaserJockmdke: nevermind, I'll talk to you later09:47
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highvoltage0/win 1110:43
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Burgundaviamdke: your blog says Ubuntu linux, not Ubuntu, a linux based operating system11:09
Burgundaviamdke: do I have to "standard name email" you? ;)11:09
highvoltageBurgundavia: seems like "Ubuntu Linux" is kind of official, hey :/11:12
Burgundaviahighvoltage: it is not Ubuntu Linux11:12
Burgundaviait is Ubuntu11:12
Burgundaviawe were Ubuntu Linux in the warty days11:12
highvoltageok, I wasn't quite aware of that, but I'm happy to learn this :)11:12
highvoltageUbuntu is much better than Ubuntu Linux. If it were Ubuntu Linux i would expect it to be Ubuntu GNU/Linux11:13
Burgundaviahence why just Ubuntu11:13
Burgundaviait also establishes us as a brand seperate from Linux11:14
highvoltagealso good for when the HURD hits 1.0 :)11:15
Burgundaviain 2300?11:16
highvoltagewell, it's good to plan ahead ;)11:19
Burgundaviahighvoltage: hurd 1.0 is a little excessive, n'cest pa?11:23
highvoltageok, let's aim for hurd 0.4 then.11:23
mdkeBurgundavia: my new blog doesn't say it, I can't be bothered to change the old one.11:38
Burgundaviamdke: ah, ok11:45

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