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mdkeI hate it when people don't idle 24 hours in here12:42
LaserJockwhy?12:43
LaserJock:-)12:43
mdkeLaserJock: it means I can't contribute to discussions which took place many hours ago >_<12:44
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LaserJockah the LP thing?12:54
mdkewell that, but more specifically will's question about translations12:55
mdkepopey: here?12:56
popeyyes mdke01:09
popeynot for long tho01:09
mdkepopey: sorry I didn't catch up with you today, was a long day01:09
popeyno probs, I understand01:10
mdkeall well?01:10
popeyyeah, work is a bit busy as it's my last week :)01:10
mdkeoh yeah01:10
popeypeople keep taking me down the pub also01:10
mdkeheh. down the tapas bar in my case01:11
popey:) nice01:11
mdkeso they can spill wine on me and put christmas hats on me01:11
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popeyhaha01:11
popeyoff to bed for me actually01:13
popeyunless there was anything specific you pinged me for ?01:13
mdkepopey: no, good night01:15
popeynn01:15
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bdmurraymdke: Looking at the Linux Basics Headings and changing "Switch to Console mode" to "Switching to Console mode", I noticed that phrase appears multiple places in svn tree.  Should I make 1 patch per document, i.e. one for ./ubuntu/C/newtoubuntu/basic-concepts.xml and 1 for ./kubuntu/C/newtokubuntu/basic-concepts.xml? Or one that covers all of them?02:48
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jjessesorry a little lagged02:48
jjessebut one patch for both02:48
bdmurrayOkay.  There are actually 4, so one patch for all four?02:49
jjessejust worry about what is in /ubuntu/C/ and kubuntu/C is that what you are asking?02:49
bdmurrayThe phrase "Switch to Console mode" appears in /ubuntu/C/, /kubuntu/C/newtokubuntu/ , /kubuntu/C/misc/ and /kubuntu/desktopguide/ .  Should all the occurences be patched?02:51
jjessedon't worry about kubuntu/desktopguide02:52
jjesseone patch for /ubuntu/C02:52
jjesseand one patch for kubuntu stuff would be fine imo02:52
bdmurrayokay, cool. thanks.02:52
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UbugtuNew bug: #76016 in ubuntu-doc "Not obvious enough how to contribute to Ubuntu documentation" [Undecided,Confirmed]  http://launchpad.net/bugs/7601604:55
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Burgundaviaok, grumble06:37
Burgundaviamdke: will nuked a bunch of stuff he should have refreshed06:37
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nixternalBurgundavia: can any of it be saved?07:31
Burgundavianixternal: it has been moved to the help wiki, but he didn't leave refreshes behind07:32
nixternalahhh07:32
nixternalneed help with them?07:32
nixternali can take a break from this games document07:32
Burgundavianope, done07:35
nixternalroger, back to the games doc :)07:36
nixternalupdated kubuntu/C/games/games.xml with a new look/layout. so far have kde games implemented and will work on more tomorrow..just want to know if the layout is what you are looking for in regards to tbh08:34
nixternalmdke ^^08:34
nixternalg'nite all08:34
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mdkeBurgundavia: now's your chance09:19
Burgundaviawillvdl: hey will09:19
mdkeyay, lots of patches09:25
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matthewrevellHey guys11:56
Madpilothi matthewrevell11:56
matthewrevellI'm just making some notes about the Ubuntu Yelp format docs, with my suggestions for where we might have another couple of Launchpad mentions. Would it be best to send that to the mailing list?11:58
Madpilotyes11:59
matthewrevellcool12:01
matthewrevellthanks12:01
TLEHey guys, any bugsquashers in here ?12:03
TLEI was reading through some of the bugsquashing wiki pages yesterday, and found a number of "old" references in them and I was wondering if somebody wanted to correct them12:05
TLEI'd do it myself exept I'm new to WIKI editing and even newer to bugsquashing12:05
matthewrevellTLE: When you say "old" references, do you mean that the wiki pages described an old way of doing things?12:23
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TLEmatthewrevell: hey sorry, I was away. At https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay?action=show&redirect=UbuntuHugDay we have the text "We've now released the beta for Edgy Eft"12:48
ktogiasI want to work on translating some of the community documentation (help.ubuntu.com/community/) pages to greek...  Should I create the greek pages at the help.ubuntu.com/community/ wiki or it is a bad place for them? Should I instead use the ubuntu-gr.org wiki?12:51
ktogiasI have created a cuple of "sample" greek pages  under help.ubuntu.com/community/ . I name them as el/EnglishPageName (eg. see help.ubuntu.com/community/el/CommonQuestions).12:55
ktogiasThe pros of this approach is that greek pages are searchable and accessible from the main help.ubuntu.com/community site and links to not yet translated pages point with no modification to the correspoding english ones.12:57
ktogiasShould I continue working this way on the help.ubuntu.com/community/ (with coordination with my loco team), or should I move and continue at ubuntu-gr.org space?01:00
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mptktogias, as long as you follow a consistent pattern, if we decide later that we need to organize things differently, we can automate whatever change needs to be made01:26
mpt(e.g. changing URLs)01:26
ktogiasok... I have decided to put everything under help.ubuntu.com/community/el/PageName and create Redirection pages with the corresponding greek name under help.ubuntu.com/community/ (e.g. help.ubuntu.com/community/ ) in order for the page to be searchable by the greek title. I do not use the greek title at first place, because greek characters on urls are translated to hex values resulting in long, ugly and mea01:32
ktogiasningless referring urls (eg. help.ubuntu.com/community/%ce%a3%cf%85%cf%87%ce%bd%ce%ad%cf%82_%ce%95%cf%81%cf%89%cf%84%ce%ae%cf%83%ce%b5%ce%b9%cf%82)01:32
ktogiasAny problem with this approach?01:33
willvdlktogias, is there a Greek LoCo team?01:42
ktogiasyes... I am a member of it01:42
ktogiashttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/GreekTeam01:42
ktogiasAnd we have the ubuntu-gr.org space01:43
matthewrevellI delayed mentioning docs in launchpad-user to start speaking to potential user panel people, and thought I'd speak to them about docs at first instead.01:47
matthewrevellwrong channel01:47
willvdlktogias, I think translations are better suited to the LoCo team websites. I'm not sure how the other LoCo's do it (having not looked yet)01:56
ktogiasI think it is a good thing to have the localized documentation centralized to the main help.ubuntu site. Someone with ignorance of the ubuntu-gr.org site, would be able to be aware of the existance of greek docs with a search to the help.ubuntu.com/community site...01:59
ktogiasAnd moving the few (at the beginning) translated pages to ubuntu-gr.org will isolate greek docs from the rest documentation and we will have to change links to pages not yet translated to point to help.ubuntu.com corresponding English pages, or have them to point to empty pages (not a good thing for a reader that could continue his reading in english if the greek page was not available)02:02
willvdlI agree with you. Thing is there is no current way to handle localisation or content filtering in the moinmoin wiki.02:02
ktogiasI know :(02:03
willvdlwhat some do is they maintain a working copy of the wiki (rsynced to their site) that gets translated as they go02:03
ktogiasI find this far more complicated... And who/when should we sync?02:04
ktogiasThis could lead to obsolete/unsyncronized docs in our "mirror"...02:05
willvdlI just noticed an Italian group doing that a while back.02:05
willvdlwell, I'm not really the one to ask but if something like rsync is set properly then it could happen as changes are made02:06
willvdlThe thing with using unicode titles is that even help.ubuntu.com/community/  becomes hex in the url02:09
ktogiasOk... As i see there is not a standard path for having localized Community documentation.... Thanks for your suggestions, I will discuss them with the members of greek loco team.02:10
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willvdlas mpt said though, as you follow a consistent pattern things would probably work out02:11
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mdkeevening07:31
Burgworkevening mdke07:32
mdkehow goes it Burgwork ?07:34
Burgworknot bad07:34
nixternalhmm. it seems that the 3d chess game in gnome games only works with opengl, when it states it works in either 2d or 3d mode, and also states it comes with gnu chess as the default ai, however none of this is true with Ubuntu07:50
Burgworkno, it works in 2d for me07:50
Burgworkin fact, i cannot get it into 3d07:50
nixternalhmm. it will not start up in feisty for me (on Kubuntu) because it can't find the glade module07:51
Burgworkfile a bug07:52
mdkesounds like a missing dependency07:52
nixternalya, im looking at the package now07:53
nixternalthats what i love about Linux..i find an issue, i report the bug, i fix the issue, and close the bug :)07:53
mdkeyes, works here on Ubuntu too. Must be a missing dep07:53
nixternalya, i installed python2.4-glade2 and it works07:54
mdkeeasy one :)07:54
nixternalhehe07:54
mdkebdmurray: nice work on all these patches, much appreciated07:57
bdmurraymdke: no problem, thanks.07:58
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bdmurrayI see there are still a couple I have submitted via launchpad.  Are changes applied more quickly when sent to the mailing list?08:00
mdkeyeah, I guess I've noticed them more prominently08:01
mdkebdmurray: are you feeling relatively comfortable about docbook and our other tools? Any questions or anything like that?08:02
bdmurrayI'm not really clear on the differentiation between the directories in svn.  If that question makes sense.08:04
bdmurrayWell, I guess it isn't really a question per se.08:05
mdkecan you explain a bit more?08:06
bdmurraywhen I run 'find . -name '*.xml' | xargs grep -H "Users and Groups"' the phrase appears multiple times in the tree.  Some of which I would expect some of which I wouldn't.08:08
mdkein which places?08:08
bdmurrayI would expect in to show up in kubuntu , xubuntu and ubuntu.  But not in kubuntu/C/misc/linux-basics.xml and kubuntu/desktopguide/C/linux-basics.xml08:09
mdkeok, that has an innocent explanation08:09
bdmurrayand /kubuntu/C/newtokubuntu/basic-concepts.xm08:09
mdkekubuntu/C/misc/ is a dump directory to store files which we are not sure about whether we are going to integrate elsewhere08:10
mdkekubuntu/desktopguide/ is an old directory that nixternal will remove when he is satisfied that the migration to the new structure has been completed08:10
mdkeand kubuntu/C/newtokubuntu is the right place :)08:10
mdkeit's basically because we have recently messed around very significantly with our structure08:11
mdkeand still need to clean house a bit08:11
bdmurrayOkay, that makes sense then.08:11
nixternalmdke: should I put a NOTE or README in that directory, or even a DO_NOT_USE for the time being?08:11
nixternalactually, i could just remove it, because i put the files in kubuntu/C/misc08:12
bdmurraymaybe there should be a top level README regarding the structure08:12
mdkeyeah08:12
bdmurraybecause what I was doing wouldn't have found it08:12
mdkeok, patches all committed, good job!08:13
mdkebdmurray: please poke me or someone else if a patch of yours has not been applied.08:13
mdkeif you think you will continue to contribute in this way, I'd like to arrange svn access for you so you can do so directly. You seem to know what you're doing08:14
UbugtuNew bug: #76542 in ubuntu-doc "Verbage change in basic-concepts.xml" [Undecided,Fix committed]  http://launchpad.net/bugs/7654208:15
UbugtuNew bug: #76545 in ubuntu-doc "Sentence order change in basic-concepts.xml" [Undecided,Fix committed]  http://launchpad.net/bugs/7654508:15
UbugtuNew bug: #76547 in ubuntu-doc "verbage change in add-applications-introduction" [Undecided,Fix committed]  http://launchpad.net/bugs/7654708:15
mdkeSeveas: Ubugtu is telling us about bugs which aren't new. Please discipline him in whatever way seems best08:16
nixternallol08:16
Seveasmdke, that'sbacklog08:16
nixternali can picture Seveas sitting there spanking his computer...bad computer08:16
mdkeSeveas: hmm?08:16
bdmurraymdke: okay, thanks.08:16
Seveasubugtu was down08:17
mdkeah, ok. Those were bugs I just changed the status of, so I got the wrong impression I guess08:17
Seveasbugs coming in during downtime will be seen as new at the first reply to that bug when he's back up08:17
bdmurraymdke: let me think about the svn access and how much time I can commit.08:17
mdkeSeveas: ah, that makes sense now, thanks08:18
mdkebdmurray: certainly. We don't have any requirements about that, a number of contributors come and go a good deal08:18
mdkehell, without me and nixternal svn would fall asleep half the time08:19
mdkeand jjesse08:19
bdmurrayheh, okay then I'll help keep it awake.08:19
mdkeyou're on. Welcome aboard08:19
nixternallol08:20
bdmurrayThanks.08:20
nixternalonly because jjesse only recently got his commit rights back08:20
nixternalor password correct08:20
mdkeBurgwork: you ok with bdmurray, right? I'd also quite like to add linuxphotogeek who has been doing some good patches recently08:20
Burgworkmdke: sounds good08:20
bdmurrayWill my username and password for svn commits be the same as for launchpad?08:42
mdkeyeah08:44
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Burgworkhey willvdl, did you get my ping earlier?08:54
willvdlhey. sorry no. basically logged on and moved away :|08:55
willvdlvery distracted today08:56
Burgworkno worries08:56
BurgworkI basically said that if you move stuff from wiki.u.c to the help wiki, leave a refresh behind, as I did with the edubuntu pages you nuked08:57
willvdlah. yes09:04
willvdlBurgwork, I made a mistake there, only read the policy bit afterwards.09:04
Burgworkno worries09:05
Burgworkno major harm done09:05
willvdlwell, I was cleaning up edubuntu wiki and looked for last edit dates and any references to the moved pages. Those with none got nuked.09:05
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nixternalmdke: http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/38275/09:30
nixternalhave you ever used the <keyword> stuff in a document? will this help with searching possibly?09:30
bdmurrayhrm, I'm having a hard time making a commit.  Should I be able to now?09:33
nixternalyou received your password already?09:33
bdmurraynixternal: no, I thought mdke said it would be my launchpad username and password.09:33
nixternalyou will use your launchpad username, but canonical will email you a password09:34
bdmurraynixternal: okay thanks.  I'll try and be more patient. ;)09:34
nixternalthe email will be encrypted, but seeing as you are probably on launchpad and on the team, I am guessing you already sent your key, and then signed the CoC09:34
bdmurrayYes, I have a launchpad account and I have sent my key and signed the CoC.  However, I don't see myself in launchpad listed as part of the team.09:35
nixternalok, mdke will add you as soon as he can09:36
bdmurrayokay, not a big deal.  Do you know how long it takes to get the svn password?  I'm trying to decide if I should sit on the change / patch or e-mail it.09:37
nixternali received mine fairly quick, so from now until i would say a day at the least09:37
nixternalas long as they aren't busy and an admin is around to do so09:38
bdmurrayCool, thanks for the information.09:38
nixternalno problem09:38
nixternalare you a Kubuntu user or Ubuntu?09:38
bdmurrayMore Kubuntu, but I have an Edubuntu system around here too.09:39
nixternalwoohoo!09:39
nixternalthe Kubuntu side of docs is getting bigger..that rocks09:39
nixternalwell as it stands, most of the stuff right now is done by jjesse, robotgeek, trappist, and myself, with ryanakca and a couple of others just getting into it09:40
bdmurraySome of the documentation seems generic too.09:40
nixternalright now on the Kubuntu side of things, just like the Ubuntu side, we are concentrating heavily on the Topic Based Help09:41
nixternalalso, the About Kubuntu section will get sucked into Ubiquity for a nice presentation while the system is installed09:41
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nixternalbdmurray: the reason for the generic feeling is because in the beginning a lot of the Kubuntu documentation was sucked from the Ubuntu side09:42
bdmurrayI didn't really mean generic but that some tools appear in both.09:42
nixternalwith Edgy docs, we were under a super tight deadline and it got busy quick, but a lot of us were dealing with other things at the same time, making it difficult to concentrate 100%09:42
nixternalbdmurray: i know what you meant, but there is a lot of rather generic usage..hopefully with the time we have now we can fix most of that if not all of that09:43
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nixternalif you are up to it, feel free to grab a section out of trunk/kubuntu/C/ and hack away. i am working on the game section right now, but for the rest of the guys i don't knwo what they might be hacking on09:44
nixternalusually, i just send an email to list to find out who is doing what in kubuntu09:44
bdmurrayIs the projects page in the wiki current?09:45
nixternali'm affraid not09:45
mdkegeneric = good09:45
nixternalonly if it applies equally is it good though09:45
nixternalthere were some sections in the old kdg that referred to gnome ways, which really are boogs more than they are being generic09:46
mdkesure09:47
nixternalbut of course, trying to do things the same way that works for all makes life so much easier09:47
nixternali.e., the games section09:47
nixternali have kde game and gnome games pretty much covered..i want to insert some of the popular games, windows replacements (which are already pretty much covered, so possibly a small section with xrefs back to the original content09:48
bdmurraylunch time here, cya09:48
nixternaland then a small write up that it is possible to play WoW, Quake 4, and such non-natively by using Cedega09:48
nixternallike 1 para that it is possible, and that you should review the cedega site, and of course it isn't free, gonna cost ya a few bucks a month/year09:49
nixternalcya later bdmurray09:49
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mdkema /win 1109:59
nixternalheh09:59
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nixternalhehe10:00
nixternalthats alright, i find myself trying to change windows by doing cd10:00
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mdkeBurgwork: have you tried the CMSs yet?10:05
Burgworkmdke: not yet10:05
mdkeI can't log in10:05
Burgworkah10:07
mdkewas my foolishness10:19
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mdkepopey: around?11:24
jjessehello mdke11:24
mdkehi jjesse11:34
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popeymdke: unfortunately just off to bed12:00
popeysaw the mail though, thanks!12:00
popeyooo, a reply from ubuntuclips12:01
mdkeyeah12:01
mdkepopey: when you have some more time, we can chat about maybe creating doc.ubuntu.com/screencasts or similar12:01
popeyyup12:02
mdkecool12:02
mdkenight12:02
popeyi would also like to see some kind of direction12:02
popeyI am making it up as I go along12:02
popeyif peopls have a core list, that would be great12:02
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popeyat the moment I am working off my own list to do, but have taken input from some of the how-tos on help.u.c12:03
popeyfor example the one about dual booting was a direct lift of the dual boot how to12:03
popeyas was the cd burning one12:03
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mdkewe can definitely get some ideas going on the doc list12:04
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popeynn12:06
mdkenight12:07
popeyoh, and it's my last day at work tomorrow - if you see me on irc after about 3pm, /ignore me, I will likely have had one too many guinnesses12:07
popeyI should setup some kind of drinking lock on my pc12:07
mdkeheh, have a good one12:07
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