[FM Discuss] new front page for FM

[Mick]

Ps. Let me know if that makes sense.

If not I can do the cloning for you. Just give me a ring and I'll get it
sorted as I may be away from email for a bit this weekend.

Mick


On 07/10/16 15:54, Mick wrote:
>> So the manual is at www.phplist.org/manual
>>
>> and the editable version is here:
>> http://write.flossmanuals.net/phplist/_edit/
>>
>> We have documentation sprint this weekend and so I need to make sure
>> this manual is ready for editing. If I press publish now, what will
>> happen? Does it make a version number? I am keen that the manual as it
>> is now is seen as version 1 and we take a move now to a new version
>> where new chapters and changes will be added
>>
> We'll probably have to hack this a little with the restrictions that we
> have with Booktype 1.6's limited versioning.
>
> I'm ccing Daniel and Aco so they can fact check this.
>
> You are working on a live version at
> http://write.flossmanuals.net/phplist -
> Going to publish will allow you to output your different pdf and epub
> versions and you can run your script to generate your pages at phplist.org
>
> From what I can work out it doesn't seem possible to really hide a book
> on 1.6.
>
> So the best thing to do when you are ready to publish this say "version
> Oct2016" and want a new space to keep working on your next version is to
> clone your original to a new book with a new title which shows it's a
> work in progress. Say "phplist-draft2"
>
> When you have cloned it, it's worth making a new major version, so that
> a record of your original stays.
>
> And then you can edit away till you are ready to publish that. And when
> you are we can delete the one currently at phplist - and rename
> phplist-draft2 - to take it's place.
>
> A bit hacky I know but Booktype 2 I think has proper versioning.
>
> Thanks
> Mick
>
>
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