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eagles0513875pleia2: seems like there is resistance to a custom developed document management system14:01
pleia2eagles0513875: I only see the comment from bkerensa16:01
pleia2it certaainly is an ambitious plan :) I think defining the requirements at this stage so you can evaluate existing options is good16:02
eagles0513875pleia2: i am reevaluating my concept at this point16:45
eagles0513875if we can work with alfresco and get the issues ironed out with open jdk erroring under high load16:45
eagles0513875i think alfresco would be a very viable option16:45
eagles0513875mhall119: balloons either of you around16:46
pleia2ok16:46
mhall119eagles0513875: in a meeting atm16:47
eagles0513875no problem mhall119 i might be able to provide you with the documentation of alfresco that might help you get a charm created16:48
balloonseagles0513875, in meetin'16:53
eagles0513875balloons: ok sry16:57
eagles0513875pleia2: alfresco is very nice to work with16:57
eagles0513875pleia2:  it has great potential in this application. for alot of projects and versioning control of documents as well as images eliminating the need for bzr all together16:57
eagles0513875we need to put it under high load and debug what issues alfresco is having with open jdk16:58
pleia2I think sorting out requirements is an important first step, we do need to support things like translations17:00
pleia2and make srure the translations community is ok with a translations system outside of bzr17:00
eagles0513875let me ask something really quickly17:01
eagles0513875pleia2: what format do the current translation files take?17:01
eagles0513875if they are .po files i think we could setup a seperate system entierly17:01
eagles0513875using pootle17:01
pleia2I don't know anything about translations17:01
* pleia2 only speaks english :)17:02
eagles0513875i have done a bit of translating of libreoffice17:02
eagles0513875pootle is vry easy to make sure no strings are missed and can be done either offline or online17:02
eagles0513875pleia2: http://pootle.translatehouse.org/17:03
eagles0513875have no experience with system setup of this stuff.17:03
eagles0513875http://pootle.translatehouse.org/discover.html pleia217:03
pleia2eagles0513875: honestly I don't have time to learn about them either, you'll really want to engage with them directly17:04
eagles0513875ya i dont either17:04
eagles0513875tbh17:04
eagles0513875atm catchign up on stuff for a deadline of two days ago17:04
pleia2even if I understood, I can't speak for preferences or workflows :)17:06
pleia2overhauling documentation is a massive job and you will need to recruit a team to work with if you want to propose something17:07
eagles0513875there is you phillw belkinsa lol17:07
eagles0513875im sure hall and the baloon master would be willing to join us17:07
eagles0513875dont want to highlight them as they are in a meeting17:08
pleia2I can devote time to improving the existing docs, but not this whole new system17:08
pleia2I've never really liked the comment-style docs and I remain unconvinced that months of work this will take will actually lead to something better17:09
pleia2but if it's something you want to do, I fully support the attempt :)17:10
pleia2just can't work on it directly myself17:10
eagles0513875i would love to do it :)17:10
eagles0513875it will be way easier to manage the teams and documentation17:10
eagles0513875with alfresco you setup projects17:10
eagles0513875and each project has its own wiki etc17:10
eagles0513875and then you add people to each respective project etc17:10
shaunmeagles0513875: what's wrong with the current bzr-based workflow?17:46
eagles0513875shaunm: dont you think its a bit steep of a learning curve for someone who has no idea how to work with version control17:58
eagles0513875let alone using the commandline with it17:58
shaunmeagles0513875: in my experience, these things aren't terribly difficult to teach.18:05
shaunmI mean, there are always trade-offs between making systems easier for beginners and making them useful for efficiently producing great results18:06
eagles0513875pleia2: what the heck is the deal with ubuntu splitting off dovecot for instance into a million different packages18:25
eagles0513875hey belkinsa19:04
belkinsaHey, need anything from me?19:04
eagles0513875no just saying hi19:04
belkinsaI see.19:04
eagles0513875and swearing as to why canonical has opted to fragment dovecot into even more packages then before19:04
* belkinsa is completely clueless here19:05
pleia2eagles0513875: in the case of dovecot there are lots of different add-ons for it, not all of which everyone wants to use, different database backends, different protocol support, much much better to just be able to install what you want to use + run than a monster of a package that has everything20:36
pleia2(and it wasn't Ubuntu or Canonical, those packages come from Debian20:41

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