Ideas please

[Corey Burger]

On 5/16/05, Sean Wheller <sean at inwords.co.za> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
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> 

So quick rundown:

1. We like stuff in SVN and docbook, but that is not easy to get into,
but very powerful
2. If you don't think you are up to the task of the above, you can
work on the wiki, and let the more experienced people put it into
docbook.

Cheers,

Corey