docbook and revision control was Re: Gnome users manual (was: Ubuntu book)

[Louise McCance-Price]

Hiya

Canonical is sponsoring an Arch project called Bazaar:
http://www.canonical.com/projects/bazaar -  to make Arch more user-friendly.

I believe there is work going on in Plone to get version control. ETA 
not known.

best
Lu



Enrico Zini wrote:

>On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 01:18:37PM -0500, John Hornbeck wrote:
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>>>>I would like to see us get something like this also.  Would cvs be good?
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>>>if we have a public cvs server (preferably one behind ssh) I would be 
>>>very happy to use that
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>>Me to.  We should ask for one, that is just for docs.
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>I imagine we could have more luch in asking for some arch repository
>though, as arch is much more popular than cvs in the Ubuntu developers
>community.[1]
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>Do we already have something to work on?  If you give me a tarball and a
>list of committers, I will see what can be done.  I'll also add a
>cvs->arch tutorial to the deal[2] :)
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>Ciao,
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>Enrico
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>[1] Generally, I'd say that whenever you'd ask for CVS, nowadays you
>want to ask for subversion instead: it's an almost drop-in replacement
>with lots of sanity added.  However, arch seems to be another step
>forward, that ubuntu developers have made.
>[2] At the moment, http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7604
>but I can customize one to our specific situation (and maybe write a
>wrapper script with presets for out case)
>--
>GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <enrico at debian.org
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