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linuxphotogeekI just submitted my first patch. What happens now?12:40
jjesseit gets reviewed and the submitted12:40
linuxphotogeekShould I expect feedback or just storm ahead?12:42
linuxphotogeekI'm a new to this process.12:43
dsaslinuxphotogeek: One of the maintainers will pick it up sometime and either commit it, or ask for changes.01:01
dsaspeople generally arent too active at this time on a sunday though.01:01
linuxphotogeekWeekends are my only free geek time. I'll what to see what happens.01:02
dsaslinuxphotogeek: I don't think that the links need to be wrapped in itemizedlist and listitems, but if that's the way the GIMP entry does it...01:03
dsasNot that I'm someone you should take feedback from too much ;)01:03
dsaslinuxphotogeek: It's cool to be only free on weekends, the mailing list lets us communicate asynchronously, there's usually activity at weekends, just not at midnight on sunday for the desktopguide01:04
linuxphotogeekI think the idea might be that a project might want more than one link.01:04
linuxphotogeekIt only 4pm here.01:05
dsaslinuxphotogeek: Possibly, like I say, I don't really know <grin>01:06
dsaslinuxphotogeek: mdke is the current primary author/editor of the desktopguide I think, and it's midnight in his timezone...01:06
dsaslinuxphotogeek: Where are you from?01:07
linuxphotogeekMoscow Idaho01:07
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dsaslinuxphotogeek: heh, a place called moscow in america just seems weird01:44
dsaslinuxphotogeek: No offence :) just didn't know such a place existed01:46
LaserJocklinuxphotogeek: sweet, Moscow01:53
LaserJockI'm from Montana originally01:53
nixternalhillbilly01:55
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nixternalhehe01:56
LaserJockI'm not so much a hillbilly though I don't think01:56
LaserJockI did grow up in the sticks, but more "old West" cowboy kinda stuff01:57
nixternalthats cool01:57
linuxphotogeekOur hills are 10,000ft and the billies are moose and brown bears.01:58
linuxphotogeekand we likes them.01:58
LaserJock;-)01:58
LaserJockone of my good friends lived in Moscow for a while01:58
LaserJockI think he's in Coeur d'Alene now though01:59
nixternalCoeur d'Alene, only reason I know that is because of the tragedy there this past year01:59
nixternalextreme makeover home edition is on...back in a bit :)02:00
LaserJockheh02:00
linuxphotogeekbye dinner calls.02:00
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david_corralesheya03:11
LaserJockhi03:16
david_corralesI have a quick question about registering OMF files with scrollkeeper03:16
david_corralesI just copied the omf to the omfdir03:19
david_corralesand the file resource points correctly03:19
david_corralesthen ran scrollkeeper-update03:19
david_corralesbut if I launch ghelp:name says it won't find it03:20
LaserJockhmm03:22
LaserJockI really don't know03:22
david_corralesthat's the process right?03:22
LaserJockmdke would know but he's asleep03:22
david_corraleshehe03:22
david_corralesah k, I'll try tomorrow :)03:22
david_corralesthanks03:22
LaserJockyou might try either the omf help in the yelp or the gnome docs channel03:23
david_corralesI'll try that03:24
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Brunellusstupid question:  what happened to wiki.ubuntu.com and why can't I go to its old start page?06:02
MadpilotBrunellus, wiki.u.c is still there06:03
Madpilotwhich URL are you using?06:03
Brunellushttp://wiki.ubuntu.com06:03
Brunelluswhich automatically redirects to the corresponding help.ubuntu.com/community/ page06:03
Brunelluswhich is not what I want.  what was wrong with wiki.ubuntu.com?06:04
Burgundaviahelp pages are now on the help wiki, at help.u.c/community06:04
Madpilotwiki.u.c is back to being just team pages, specs, and other internal things. the actual docs are at help.u.c/c06:04
Burgundaviawiki.u.c is used for non-help stuff06:04
Brunellusso is there a "start here" at help.u.c/c06:04
Brunelluslet me rephrase that06:05
Burgundaviayep06:05
Burgundaviahelp.ubuntu.com/community06:05
Brunellusno, but the old "wiki sandbox"06:05
Brunellusand the rest of it.  you know, for creating new pages.06:05
Burgundaviajust dive in, it is a wiki, just like wiki.ubuntu.com06:06
Brunelluslook, searching for new pages doesn't prompt to make a new one like it used to06:07
BrunellusI'm sorry if I sound like I'm trolling06:07
Burgundaviayou need to be logged in06:07
Brunellusbut I *am* logged in06:07
Burgundaviato help.ubuntu.com?06:08
BurgundaviaI get it06:08
Brunellusgot it.06:09
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Brunellussee, on w.u.c., a search that returned no results prompted a "would you like to make a new page"06:09
crimsunBurgundavia: Issue24 done.06:09
Burgundaviacrimsun: thanks06:10
Brunellusbut cleverly, my overlords have made it so that this is no longer the case.06:10
BurgundaviaI don;t see that on either wiki06:10
Burgundaviahowever, if you got a page that doesn't exist, you get the "create a page" \on both wikis06:11
BrunellusBurgundavia, it used to be the case that a title search that returned no results got the "create a page"06:11
Brunelluseither that or I am smoking crack.06:12
BurgundaviaI think the latter, because I don't remember any such thing, and I have been editing since it was zwiki06:12
Brunellusfine.06:13
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LaserJockI don't remember it being on title searches either06:13
nixternalhaha, he said the latter06:13
nixternalTip of the day: Don't smoke crack while trying to use the wiki06:13
david_corraleso.o06:15
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jeffschBurgundavia: re Brunellus: if your personal settings on w.u.c. are "remember last page" or some such, whenever you go to w.u.c it redirects you to the last page you visited07:09
Burgundaviajeffsch: ah, hmm07:09
jeffschif the last page you visited has since been moved and redirected to h.u.c., then there you go07:10
Burgundaviatrue, but he was talking about searching07:12
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linuxphotogeekI'm kind of confused about the interplay between documentation that is in YELP, the wiki and Community Contributed. Which is the most appropriate to work on? Which will be the most helpful to the most users?02:52
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willvdlola, has anyone tried to make all edubuntu docs in trunk?03:18
willvdlmakefile complains about an images directory on /build03:23
willvdlmy bad..forgot to update03:33
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david_corralesmorning. Anyone around who knows about scrollkeeper? :)07:25
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mihakriketI am currently working on the wiki for the advance commandline howto, does anybody have any feedback on some features/functions I should include.09:00
mdke_david_corrales: ghelp only responds to documentation installed in /usr/share/gnome/help/docname, is yours registered there?09:43
david_corralesI just talked to shaunm and he cleared that for me09:44
david_corralesit's working now :) thanks man09:44
mdke_good09:44
david_corralesshould be documented somewhere09:44
mdke_yeah. I think they are hoping that stuff is just going to go away soon09:44
david_corralesI read about a new system to replace scrollkeeper09:45
mdke_yes, Don is developing one09:45
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willvdlping nixternal10:46
nixternalwillvdl: pong10:47
willvdlhey there. quick question if I may10:47
willvdlin svn repo there are branches for the various ubuntu-doc releases.10:48
willvdlthey get packaged with release and are worked on during the release lifecycle10:48
willvdlhow often do they get packaged and added as updates to the archive?10:49
nixternalthey usually get packaged during the last couple of weeks prior tot he main release10:49
willvdlfor testing...10:50
willvdl[review] 10:50
nixternalwell, as long ast he Makefiles are correct, they will build out for review on http://doc.ubuntu.com/edubuntu10:50
willvdlbut doc.u.c is the trunk right?10:51
nixternalcorrect10:51
willvdlhow often are updates packaged into ubuntu-doc10:51
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nixternalwell, they are only released into a stable release if there is a grave error, a mistake that would cost someone to damage their system10:52
nixternalnormal string updates usually don't get in a stable release, but get incorporated into the development release10:52
willvdlaha. so string updates to the handbook for example would only live on h.u.c10:53
nixternalstring updates will be on doc.ubuntu.com, help.ubuntu.com builds off of the stable release, so if string updates get into a package then they will get into h.u.c10:54
willvdlgot it. so there is not much drive (or need) to further develop docs in the stable releases pending grave errors10:55
nixternalcorrect10:55
nixternalthe focus now should be on the development release, fixing the bugs as we go along10:56
nixternalif somone posts a bug to a stable release, that bug, unless grave, gets fixed in the development release10:56
willvdlI'm just thinking of dapper docs (being LTS), should one feel it needs fleshing out...10:56
nixternalpersonally i do, but that isn't up to me10:56
nixternalwith that in mind, it would be good to make 1 big fix to all documentation, as it has to get translation fixes as well10:57
willvdlah. hadn't considered translations.... changes things a bit10:57
Burgworkthe issue with updating docs in released version is of translations10:58
willvdlhow is that managed? i.e. should a change be made to dapper docs, how is the need for localisation communicated?10:59
willvdlshort of assigning the bug to the translation team10:59
nixternalthat im not 100% sure on just yet, that would be a Burgwork or mdke_ question11:00
willvdlhmm, I suppose assigning the bug to the doc-team and the translation team could actually work...11:01
nixternali know one of our tasks is to create the translation templates, which i believe mdke uploads for translation to begin11:02
willvdldoesn't leave much time for translations...11:03
nixternalno it doesn't11:04
willvdlsimilarly, should a loco team decide to do a translation "sprint" on a stable release, those efforts would need to get packaged and loaded to the archive11:06
willvdlas an update as such11:06
nixternalMarch 8th is the string freeze, which is the final doc turn in date, so translators have just over a month11:06
dsastranslations are regularly-ish updated in langpacks are they not? I have no idea if that goes for ubuntu-docs though.11:07
nixternalthats what i thought, but im out of the translating look really11:07
nixternals/look/loop11:07
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willvdlI'm getting into it. am looking to try organise wordforge-style sprints for loco teams11:08
nixternalthat would be cool11:09
willvdlurk, I've just realised the conversation we've just had on updates and releases is covered in a _very_ recent email thread11:10
willvdlis TopicBasedHelp definitely  going to be in Feisty?11:12
nixternalwe are working on it11:16
willvdlyeah, I know :) it is a monster spec ...11:17
willvdlIs the idea to "carry on as before" and then (in parallel) try and extract topics into sections to fit the spec?11:18
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nixternalwillvdl: sorry, yes that is how we are going about it at the current time11:36
nixternalhiya jjesse11:36
jjessehiya nixternal11:36
nixternali have been playing around with other distros today..so far SuSE has the best KHelpCenter setup11:37
jjesseyeah?11:42
jjessei haven't had time to do much11:42
LaserJockI installed Fedora Core 6 last night11:43
nixternali just installed FC6, updating and then going to install KDE on it11:43
LaserJockI like the installer (anaconda always looked slick to me) but that was about it11:43
nixternalya, anaconda is actually pretty nice nowadays11:44
LaserJockthat and the bootsplash11:44
nixternalalthough, i liked yast2 in kde as well11:44
nixternali like the OpenSUSE grub splash..it is a Christmas theme with penguins in santa hats ice skating11:44
LaserJockhaha11:44
nixternali did the same thing11:45
LaserJockI might try it this week11:45
nixternali had to sit and watch it11:45
jjessewhat do you think of kickoff?11:45
jjessei'm thinking of downloading it just for that11:45
nixternalOpenSUSE + KDE is super fast, kickoff is nice just not practical11:45
nixternali don't like submenus11:45
nixternaland there isn't katapult either11:45
jjesse hmm i'l;l have to try it tomorrow11:45
jjessetime for dinner11:45
jjessei love katapult11:45
nixternalmmm food11:45
jjesseits what i miss the most11:45
nixternalya11:45
nixternalim an alt+space junky11:46
nixternalyou hit alt+space in suse it brings up kerry beagle11:46
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