[09:51] morning all [16:24] kel? [18:49] 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] i sent in my "hello doc team" letter a LONG time ago. [19:10] 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] Alan_M: I've added you to the Launchpad group [19:13] im interested in doing whatever is needed...im currently expanding my knowledge on the wiki and how to create pages through it. [19:14] sorry..i was helping a user with a bug in the #ubuntu-bugs room [19:15] 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] Alan_M: if you show us what the error was, probably we can help [19:20] meh i uninstalled it, i could reinstall it, it would take me a little while though mdke [19:20] Alan_M: you mean you uninstalled bzr? [19:21] Is Docbooks not the tool you use to edit system documentation? [19:21] docbook is the name for the programming language used to write the system documentation, a bit like html [19:22] it's a very simple language which uses tags like html does [19:22] 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] when you have got them, you can edit them with any text editor, like gedit (the Gnome text editor) [19:23] 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] yes im familiar with bzr, i work on another project with it :) [19:25] 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] just a lot of wasted space right? [19:25] heh [19:26] about 3MB [19:26] eh, not too bad i guess