[FM Discuss] Versioning for entire collections

[adam hyde]

time stamping is easy



On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 17:09 -0400, Seth Woodworth wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Joshua Gay <joshuagay at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         It would be nice if the package installed into the
>         Applications menu
>         into a FLOSSManuals section (on Debian and Ubuntu). I don't
>         think a
>         GTK reader would be bad. It would be nice if they also had
>         info and
>         man integration, with the aim of making info and man readers
>         of the
>         future, sexier. Integration of end-user documentation and
>         man/info
>         documentation would be nice (I could imagine something using
>         inclusion
>         -- this would be easy in a GTK reader, since you have all of
>         the the
>         GNU C library terminal functions at your disposal). Also, it
>         would
>         also be good if the PDFs and HTML pages linked to the wiki.
>         
>         -Josh
>         
>         
>         On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:52 PM, 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...
>         >
>         > as for the 'release' idea..., the content of different
>         manuals is
>         > updated at different rates. For example, Sugar is updated
>         almost daily
>         > at the moment. Whereas I haven't updated MuSE for 4 months.
>         >
>         > Im not sure how we could do such a 'release' given these
>         > circumstances...
>         
> 
> *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.
> 
> --Seth
> 
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>         >
>         > adam
>         >
>         >
>         > On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 15:56 -0400, Luke Faraone wrote:
>         >> Hey all,
>         >>
>         >> If I'm planning on making DEB packages out of FLOSSManuals
>         content, is
>         >> there any way to have a manual "release"?
>         >>
>         >> Like when it's been checked over that it works with version
>         of the
>         >> software foo by person.
>         >>
>         >> -lf
>         >>
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