Re: user docs release?

[Chris Lyttle <chris wilddev net>]

The Sun version of the Users Guide for GNOME2 is currently in the module, 
also it is the only thing setup to build atm. I'd vote for a) too, I can 
do a quick conversion of the existing docs to xml format without changing the 
content and update the OMF files. This will depend on how John Fleck feels 
about it tho, he may just prefer to go with b) due to the closeness of 
release. Thanks for the update, Sasha

Chris

On 11 Jun 2002, Alexander Kirillov wrote:

> The problem is, none of the stuff in gnome-user-docs was  updated for
> 2.0. The Users Guide is being rewritten by Sun guys;  afaik, a version
> of Sun's UG  for 1.4 is ready (it is not the same as waht we used for
> 1.4) but  updating it for 2.0  is not complete yet. Other docs (intro to
> gnome, unix-primer, glossary) were not updated at all - this is mostly
> my fault, as I was maintaining them. But I am afraid I can't really
> maintain them at the moment - for various personal reasons. 
> 
> Unix-primer actually needs no updating (other than sgml->xml conversion)
> and I think it is still relevant, so it should probably be included. As
> for other docs, unless someone volunteers to do a quick update, we have
> a choice of 
> 
>  a. shipping 1.4 docs with GNOME 2.0 - and fix it by 2.01 release
>  b. removing old docs and ship without them 
> 
> I'd probably vote for a. - but replacing the version of the UG we had
> for 1.4 by Sun's UG, even if it is not fully updated for 2.0.
> 
> Sasha
> 
> On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 13:46, Chris Lyttle wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi John,
> > > 
> > > Has anyone stepped up for active maintenance of the user docs package yet?
> > > We really need an unbroken release of that for RC1. Sander can always do it
> > > again if we can't find anyone, we just have to make sure it's installable on
> > > all platforms.
> > > 
> > 
> > Seen as how I was maintaining the UG before sun took over I could do this, 
> > tho admittedly I only have a pretty basic understanding of how the auto* 
> > stuff works (enough not to break it usually). It'd be nice to get some 
> > ideas from the gnome-docs-list tho what things in this module are still 
> > useful and what we can remove.
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> 
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