#ubuntu-doc report for 2004-01-06

[Christoph Haas]

On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 12:18:23AM +0800, Enrico Zini wrote:
> * Subversion behind a proxy
> 
> Plovs asked how to connect to svn through a proxy with a password.
> There was no clear answer on IRC, but I found this link that may be
> useful:
>   http://subversion.tigris.org/project_faq.html#proxy

I use it that way every day. Just edit your ~/.subversion/servers file
and that's it. If it doesn't work - check your squid.

> Later on, as Froud brough in new issues like print/screen quality,
> themes and window decorations, the discussion evolved and Froud
> eventually wrote everything into an excellent "Taking Screen Captures"
> section in the
> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/AboutTheUbuntuCoreDocumentationProject
> wiki page.  It's especially nice the imagemagick hack that allows to
> take screenshots at the desired dpi resolution.

Looks good. Are the translators happy about that? Because for us this is
easy. :)

> * Packaging the FAQ Guide
> 
> Since the FAQ Guide is now complete, plovs wished for a Debian package
> for it.  ChrisH offered to create the debian/ structure, plovs then
> offered to maintain it so he could learn how to do the packaging thing.
> 
> sivang also offered clues on how to register the documents with
> scrollkeeper and doc-base.

I still lack clue whether we also ship an HTML version. Do we just need
the XML files and included pictures in the package?

 Christoph
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