[09:51] <mdke> morning all
[16:24] <brousch> kel?
[18:49] <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.
[19:10] <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
[19:12] <mdke> Alan_M: I've added you to the Launchpad group
[19:13] <Alan_M> im interested in doing whatever is needed...im currently expanding my knowledge on the wiki and how to create pages through it.
[19:14] <Alan_M> sorry..i was helping a user with a bug in the #ubuntu-bugs room
[19:15] <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.....
[19:19] <mdke> Alan_M: if you show us what the error was, probably we can help
[19:20] <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?
[19:21] <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
[19:22] <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
[19:23] <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 :)
[19:24]  * Alan_M just removes docbook
[19:24] <Alan_M> yes im familiar with bzr, i work on another project with it :)
[19:25] <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
[19:26] <mdke> about 3MB
[19:26] <Alan_M> eh, not too bad i guess