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| Captainkrtek | hello | 00:13 |
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| godbyk | Hey, Captainkrtek. | 00:16 |
| Captainkrtek | just got all setup with the ubuntu-manual, wondering how I can help :-) | 00:17 |
| godbyk | Captainkrtek: Cool. There are a number of different ways you can help. | 00:18 |
| Captainkrtek | havent used tex before | 00:18 |
| godbyk | We're finishing up proofreading the maverick edition. | 00:18 |
| Captainkrtek | oh cool | 00:18 |
| godbyk | We need to get that finished in the next two weeks so we can publish it. | 00:18 |
| Captainkrtek | I'd be glad to help in any way | 00:18 |
| godbyk | We've also started work on the Natty edition. | 00:18 |
| Captainkrtek | I have experience with natty as well | 00:18 |
| Captainkrtek | currently been writing docs and editing on the ubuntu-docs team | 00:19 |
| godbyk | We could use your help as an author, an editor, a programmer, or in other various ways. | 00:19 |
| godbyk | Take your pick! :) | 00:19 |
| Captainkrtek | I could be an editor, and possibly a programmer (depends on what is needed) :-) | 00:19 |
| godbyk | If you'd like to get started immediately, you can dive in and help copyedit the maverick edition. We're in bug-hunting mode there. | 00:20 |
| Captainkrtek | sure! I need a quick rundown though, I followed the author setup | 00:20 |
| Captainkrtek | Have tex installed, and bzr branched the ubuntu-manual | 00:20 |
| godbyk | As a programming: if you know Python, you could help out with Quickshot. If you know LaTeX or Docbook or things along those lines, I can come up with some work for you. | 00:20 |
| godbyk | Okay, great! | 00:21 |
| Captainkrtek | hmm not too familiar with those languages, more C, C#, and a bit of Java | 00:21 |
| godbyk | If you have TeX Live installed and you've branched the maverick repository, have you tried building the PDF yet? | 00:21 |
| Captainkrtek | No I haven't and im not sure I have maverick | 00:22 |
| godbyk | I can walk you through the process and help you get things set up, if you like. | 00:22 |
| Captainkrtek | yes I'd appreciate that, thanks :) | 00:23 |
| godbyk | Sure! | 00:23 |
| Captainkrtek | so right now, I have all of tex installed | 00:23 |
| Captainkrtek | and this branch bzr branch lp:ubuntu-manual | 00:23 |
| godbyk | If you open a terminal and change into the directory where you checked out the manual repository, we can see which branch you have. | 00:23 |
| Captainkrtek | okay | 00:23 |
| Captainkrtek | there | 00:23 |
| godbyk | If you run 'bzr info' it should tell you what the parent branch is. | 00:24 |
| godbyk | Does it end in 'maverick'? | 00:24 |
| Captainkrtek | nope | 00:24 |
| Captainkrtek | ill pastebin it | 00:24 |
| godbyk | Okay. | 00:24 |
| Captainkrtek | http://paste.ubuntu.com/602040/ | 00:24 |
| godbyk | Okay, that should be the maverick edition, then. | 00:25 |
| Captainkrtek | k | 00:25 |
| godbyk | Have you run the install-pkgs.sh script yet? | 00:26 |
| Captainkrtek | yes | 00:26 |
| Captainkrtek | all checked out | 00:26 |
| godbyk | Perfect. | 00:26 |
| godbyk | Go ahead and run 'make'. | 00:26 |
| godbyk | It should compile the PDF. | 00:26 |
| Captainkrtek | let me just verify real quick | 00:26 |
| Captainkrtek | yup all good | 00:26 |
| godbyk | It may take a few minutes. | 00:26 |
| Captainkrtek | can I make multiple jobs? | 00:27 |
| Captainkrtek | like compiling a kernel | 00:27 |
| godbyk | Not in this one. | 00:27 |
| Captainkrtek | oh okay | 00:27 |
| godbyk | It's all one giant job. | 00:27 |
| Captainkrtek | aww my 6 cores have nothing to do ;-) | 00:27 |
| godbyk | Yeah, it's a fairly linear process, I'm afraid. | 00:27 |
| Captainkrtek | K done | 00:27 |
| Captainkrtek | Success! Wrote 164 pages | 00:28 |
| godbyk | Now you can run 'evince main.pdf' and you should see the manual. | 00:28 |
| Captainkrtek | very cool | 00:28 |
| Captainkrtek | Getting started with ubuntu 10.10 | 00:28 |
| godbyk | Right now we're reading through the manual and fixing any typos or other bugs. | 00:29 |
| Captainkrtek | cool | 00:29 |
| Captainkrtek | I have experience with Q&A | 00:29 |
| Captainkrtek | QA* | 00:29 |
| godbyk | If you find a bug, you can just edit the appropriate .tex file, save it, and commit the changes to the bzr repository. | 00:29 |
| godbyk | Are you familiar with bzr? | 00:29 |
| Captainkrtek | yes I use bzr a bit | 00:30 |
| Captainkrtek | never used tex before though | 00:30 |
| godbyk | TeX isn't too bad. You might find the style guide handy: <http://files.ubuntu-manual.org/style-guide.pdf> | 00:30 |
| godbyk | It gives a quick introduction to using LaTeX and shows you the syntax of all the commands we're using. | 00:30 |
| godbyk | If you have any LaTeX-related questions, feel free to ask me. | 00:30 |
| Captainkrtek | ahh cool | 00:30 |
| Captainkrtek | thanks :) | 00:31 |
| godbyk | Otherwise, it sounds like you're all set! | 00:31 |
| godbyk | Have fun editing the manual and thanks for your help! | 00:31 |
| Captainkrtek | thanks for the help! :) | 00:31 |
| godbyk | Again, feel free to ask me if you hit any snags or have any questions. | 00:31 |
| Captainkrtek | will do! | 00:31 |
| Captainkrtek | have to finish an essay real quick, after that I'll get to work | 00:31 |
| godbyk | No problem. | 00:32 |
| godbyk | :) | 00:32 |
| === daker_ is now known as daker | ||
| godbyk | Hey, thorwil. Have you taken a look at the test with the narrower screenshots? What are your thoughts? | 18:01 |
| thorwil | godbyk: looks ok on screen, but didn't compare with the other | 18:18 |
| godbyk | 'kay. Figured I'd ping you for your opinion while I saw you here. :) | 18:19 |
| === daker is now known as daker_ | ||
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