| mdke | morning all | 09:51 |
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| brousch | kel? | 16:24 |
| Alan_M | hey guys, i requested to join ubuntu-doc-students a while back...its been quite some time now, when will my request be acted on so i can get a mentor and be on my way in the project? | 18:49 |
| Alan_M | i sent in my "hello doc team" letter a LONG time ago. | 18:49 |
| mdke | Alan_M: I'll take a look. What type of documentation are you interested in contributing to? You don't need a mentor to get started, just ask any questions you have here or on the mailing list | 19:10 |
| mdke | Alan_M: I've added you to the Launchpad group | 19:12 |
| Alan_M | im interested in doing whatever is needed...im currently expanding my knowledge on the wiki and how to create pages through it. | 19:13 |
| Alan_M | sorry..i was helping a user with a bug in the #ubuntu-bugs room | 19:14 |
| Alan_M | i would like to learn how to edit system documentation honestly, but when i went to download docbooks it gave me some errors..... | 19:15 |
| mdke | Alan_M: if you show us what the error was, probably we can help | 19:19 |
| Alan_M | meh i uninstalled it, i could reinstall it, it would take me a little while though mdke | 19:20 |
| mdke | Alan_M: you mean you uninstalled bzr? | 19:20 |
| Alan_M | Is Docbooks not the tool you use to edit system documentation? | 19:21 |
| mdke | docbook is the name for the programming language used to write the system documentation, a bit like html | 19:21 |
| mdke | it's a very simple language which uses tags like html does | 19:22 |
| mdke | but to get our documents, you need to use "bzr" which is a revision control program. the instructions are https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/Repository | 19:22 |
| mdke | when you have got them, you can edit them with any text editor, like gedit (the Gnome text editor) | 19:23 |
| Alan_M | well, i guess i screwed up but i actually have bzr, so i guess im good to go :) | 19:23 |
| * Alan_M just removes docbook | 19:24 | |
| Alan_M | yes im familiar with bzr, i work on another project with it :) | 19:24 |
| mdke | you don't need the docbook package necessarily to edit the documents, but it doesn't do any harm to have it around | 19:25 |
| Alan_M | just a lot of wasted space right? | 19:25 |
| Alan_M | heh | 19:25 |
| mdke | about 3MB | 19:26 |
| Alan_M | eh, not too bad i guess | 19:26 |
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