#ubuntu-doc report for 2004-12-23

[Enrico Zini]

Hello!

Now that Fabbione has set up ubuntulog to mail me the daily #ubuntu-doc
logs, I give birth to a daily list report on what happened in the
channel.

--- #ubuntu-doc report for 2004-12-23 ---
Burgundavia promised to write a baz quickstart guide before Jan 4 and is
now deep into learning it.  It seems that the current documentation for
baz has problems, and he's taking care of it.

Burgundavia says that the bazaar developers describe baz as "tla without
the crack".  Can't wait to se some good documentation for it and try it
out!

Enrico tried to find out how to show an image in a wiki page in Moin
format, but had no luck.  ChrisH complained for the lack of good
documentation for the Moin markup format, but Enrico found this link
that should solve the problem: http://www.bfsf.it/wiki/HelpOnEditing
It's also worth looking at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DifferencesWithRealMoin

Plovs was also working on a Moin markup cheat sheet, and as soon as he's
alive online I'm going to ask how it works: I want to have that
accessible directly from the Edit page.

Cenerentola asked if we're working at a welcome panel, as something that
shows up when you run ubuntu after installation, or everytime you use
the live cd.  In fact we do, in the form of the "about ubuntu" page that
in the conference BOF we decided to port from HTML to DocBook.
I still don't know if the work has started, though.

Cenerentola asked for hints on how to setup a school project to involve
teacher and students to produce free software documentation.  Enrico
suggested to discuss strategy with a friendly professor in that school,
so that a project is created which suits the local context of the school
itself.

Cenerentola wondered about what contents such a project should produce;
Enrico suggested to just let the school project decide on them according
to what they find more relevant, as in his experience this brings in
creativity from the new environment (which is the school) and has a
better quality than anything that can be created in the existing old
community.  Not only they'd bring more in a different kind of
experience, but they'd feel the work "more belonging to them" and do
things with more enthousiasm.

Enrico tried out svk (http://svk.elixus.org/) and managed to perform a
full repository mirror with it in one of those moments the svn
repository was up.  Now he can work locally accessing the full revision
history.

ChrisH was scared by another version control system, but luckily this
one interacts seamlessly with other people using plain svn.

BTW, svk is really cool, I'm impressed!  I also met the developers here
in Taiwan over the week-end, and they are cool!  It also works on top of
CVS, and they plan to interface with Arch as well... yum! :)

Enrico tried adding some more contents to
parts/moreinfo/chap-applicationmigration.xml and asked what is the
canonical Ubuntu way for burning CDs, in order to suggest a replacement
for Nero Burning ROM.  Turns out that Nautilus already has an integrated
CD burner called "nautilus-cd-burner".

Enrico asked Elmo about the status of svn migration to Canonical webfarm
and they chatted a bit about it, trying to sync with the current status of
the situation.  We won't have the svn repo in Canonical machines before
beginning of next year, as Elmo will be in vacation as well starting
from today.

Plovs found out how to make links working:
  <link linkend="sect-general">General Notes</link>
  <sect1 id="sect-general">

ChrisH has problems with a lost partition table.  plovs suggested to use
a knoppix live CD with testdisk
(http://www.sleuthkit.org/informer/sleuthkit-informer-15.html#testdisk)
or gpart.

plovs annouced some nice progress on fq2/faq2.xml, which is turning out
to be very nice and navigable with yelp.

sivang noticed that now we have 2 short guides, one which is task
oriented, one which is feature oriented, and one major hand book.
cooool!
--- End of #ubuntu-doc report for 2004-12-23 ---


Ciao,

Enrico

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