Re: ScrollKeeper seriesid

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 12:04:06PM +0000, Pat Costello wrote:
> Shaun McCance wrote:
> > 
> > It would seem people are copying OMF files from other projects and not
> > changing the seriesid.  On my machine brlmonitor, gnopernicus, and gedit
> > all have the same seriesid; modemlights and cdplayer are the same; and
> > blackjack and aisleriot are the same.
> > 
> > This is important.  The seriesid is supposed to identify uniquely groups
> > of documents that are essentially the same, i.e. they are translations
> > or updates.  When you use the same seriesid as some unrelated document,
> > you can screw things up badly.  Please read
> > 
> > http://scrollkeeper.sf.net/documentation/writing_scrollkeeper_omf_files/ar01s04.html
> > 
> 
> I checked on the original creation details for the omf files for gedit, gnopernicus, and brlmonitor: 
> 
> gedit: 		jfleck inkstain net 	2002-03-01
> gnopernicus: 	ps baum ro 		2003-01-07
> brlmonitor: 	ps baum ro		2003-01-07
> 
> Therefore the gedit OMF pre-dates the OMFs for gnopernicus and brlmonitor, which have identical seriesids. I suggest that whoever put back the gnopernicus and brlmonitor applications in 2003-01-07 should now create unique seriesids in the OMFs for these two applications. 

  BTW I had a glance at the OMF files found on my machine yesterday,
seen that not any of them has a correct identifier url value is kindof
depressing:
   url="file:/usr/share/gnome/help/.....omf"
 this is simply wrong, should be fixed, the URI are
   url="file:///usr/share/gnome/help/.....omf"

 If this is generated, pkease fix the script !
What's the usefulness of gathering metadata if they are broken ?

Daniel

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