[Training Community] [Fwd: Fwd: Help test the DocBook output of MoinMoin]

[Matthew Edmondson]

On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 15:06 -0400, Torsten Spindler wrote:
> Sorry for the double forwarding, but this is of interest to the training
> community. Using a wiki would greatly enhance our chances to get more
> people involved in the course development, as no locally installed tools
> would be necessary. Though someone would need to render the wiki page as
> docbook, normalize the output (probably xmllint --format), and publish
> it via bazaar.
> 
> Is there anybody interested in helping with a test run? I would take
> some pages from the current desktop course, save it on the test wiki,
> render as docbook and then push it via bazaar to Launchpad. The test run
> would be to edit the wiki page, follow the same steps and push it to
> Launchpad. The criteria I'd be interested in is the closeness of the
> diff between the two editions on the wiki vs the revisions in Launchpad.
> 
> Torsten
> 
yes that would be me. I am most experienced with wiki editing.

If anyone had a moment to mentor me in order to help me get to grips
with the locally installed tools that would be ace.  I have got as far
as having a local SVN version, but am not confident at taking that
further.

matthew

> 
> email message attachment, "Forwarded message - Fwd: Help test the
> DocBook output of MoinMoin"
> > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > From: Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com>
> > To: ubuntu-doc <ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com>
> > Subject: Fwd: Help test the DocBook output of MoinMoin
> > Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:08:21 +0000
> > 
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Mikko Virkkilä <mvirkkil at cc.hut.fi>
> > Date: Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:01 AM
> > Subject: Help test the DocBook output of MoinMoin
> > To: Mark.Koszuch at kfw.de, kwade at redhat.com, mdke at ubuntu.com,
> > dcramer at motive.com, benny.malengier at ugent.be, henrik at gotadsl.co.uk,
> > pierce at xtuple.com
> > 
> > 
> > You have expressed interest in using the MoinMoin wiki together with
> > DocBook. I have worked on improving the docbook output support in the
> > MoinMoin wiki for the upcoming release of 1.7. This time I'm working
> > directly on the main trunk and not a separate branch, so the
> > improvements are going to be in 1.7 when it is released (sometime
> > during spring, freeze is scheduled in two weeks).
> > 
> > Most of the work is directly ported over from the 1.6-docbook branch
> > which never got merged to 1.6. This includes a boatload of bugfixes
> > and improvements. There are some completely new features too, such as
> > better/native support for admonitions and revision history.
> > 
> > The work has focused on the output formatter, so the import
> > functionality of docbooks and the export functionality of docbook
> > books and resources has not been ported over.
> > 
> > What I need now is people testing the functionality. There is a test
> > wiki for the 1.7 release at http://test17.moinmo.in/ which you can
> > freely edit. If you find issues please don't hesitate to e-mail me
> > about them.
> > 
> > A summary about the changes so far:
> >  * Output valid DOCTYPE
> >  * Much improved table support
> >  * Support for unicode and HTML entities like →(=?) and ☃ (=?)
> >  * Support for FootNote macro
> >  * Support for bulletless lists
> >  * Much better support for definitions and glossaries
> >  * Added support for program language and line numbering in code areas
> >  * Images should now always get an absolute path
> >  * Support for the MoinMoin comment element was added. Mapped to a remark.
> >  * Admonitions see http://test17.moinmo.in/HelpOnAdmonitions
> >  * Revision history using the wiki page's edit history
> > 
> > So, please go to http://test17.moinmo.in/ to help making sure the
> > docbook output will be top-notch in MoinMoin 1.7.0.
> > 
> > - Mikko
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Matthew East
> > http://www.mdke.org
> > gnupg pub 1024D/0E6B06FF
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