[FM Discuss] Versioning for entire collections

[adam hyde]

Luke, Seth, and Joshua...you are all in Boston right? I will be there in
2 weeks. Maybe we can have a coffee and discuss this idea further?

adam


On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 18:05 -0400, adam hyde wrote:
> so how do we go about this? 
> 
> I can talk to Aco about creating a docbook exporter. Do we need to get
> some heads together and plan how to take care of all the parts of the
> puzzle?
> 
> adam
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 17:33 -0400, Luke Faraone wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 16:52, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net>
> > wrote:
> >         A deb would be fantastic...were you thinking of doing it in
> >         html or
> >         using pdf? I was actually pondering the possibility of a
> >         simple GTK
> >         reader...too fancy? We could (for example) export to docbook
> >         if we could
> >         find a nice reading app...
> > 
> > 
> > GNOME uses Yelp to read their manuals, I'm sure we could use that too
> > if we'd rather. (Although I've been partial to Browsers, we can do
> > both!)
> > 
> > DocBook works the best, as it can be easilly converted from there to a
> > multitude of formats. 
> > 
> > Here's my idea of the workflow:
> >      1. Upstream (FLOSSManuals) provides export functionality (to
> >         DocBook) and a generic make-me-a-manual script (pulls in the
> >         latest DocBook, converts to whatever format, I can write this)
> >      2. Downstream (Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu) works out the making it a
> >         package (I'll do this for sugar + debian/ubuntu)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 17:19, Seth Woodworth <seth at laptop.org> wrote:
> >         Hrrm... I would be very interested in upstreaming a
> >         sugar-manual package into Sugar-for-other-distro's.
> >         
> > 
> > That's the idea. I'm hoping to be able to package 
> > 
> > 
> >         > *shrug*  have high numbers.  Or name a release by day/time.
> >          Having *any*
> >         > release info is better than none.
> >         >
> >         > Actually, I think that a timestamp wouldn't be awful, use
> >         the exact moment
> >         > that someone hits the publish button.  Easy.
> >  
> >         
> >         
> >         I agree. I think that even without any info it would still be
> >         good to
> >         have a DEB package of all of the manuals. Once the process is
> >         created,
> >         it can help bring focus to upstream/QA type work/issues.
> > 
> > I assume here that it'll be a separate DEB per manual... (or group) 
> > 
> > 
> > -lf (ffm)
> > 
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Adam Hyde
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