Ideas please

[Sean Wheller]

On Tuesday 17 May 2005 03:39, squareyes wrote:
> Had energy 40 years ago,   now ?
> Time yes, working on 25 years,  energy limited. :-)

heh, heh, well does not look like you are doing to bad. Besides 'Maddog' is 
older than that and I am not too far behind you, we are still doing fine. ;-)

> Could someone advise me steps to go about this, need to be in
> very simple terms, and I will see what I can do. Hope the wiki is
> unbreakable :-)

For the core stuff that will be packaged in the distro, we don't work in wiki. 
We work in Docbook XML which is stored in a revision control system known as 
Subversion.

So you will need to first install subversion and a few other pieces. Do
sudo apt-get install subversion
sudo apt-get install docbook
sudo apt-get install docbook-xsl
sudo apt-get install xsltproc

That should give you the toolchain you need.

Now you can follow:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/DocteamStepByStepRepository

To get familiar with what we do and how, lots of resources can be found at:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/DocumentationTeam

For more interactive help, you can visit us on IRC. See 
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/ForTheHasty
Hope this helps.


-- 
Sean Wheller
Technical Author
sean at inwords.co.za
084-854-9408
http://www.inwords.co.za
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