On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 09:11:30PM +0100, Armin K. wrote: > > Thank you for trusting me the work. For now, I think that I've respond > to most of the already fixed issues. However, many of them remain, and I > am not unable to handle them all. Anyways, as I see, there are lots of > requests for package upgrades and new packages. I would like to > volounteer to upgrade some of the packages in the book. Now (I feel > embarrased to ask this) I'd like someone to tell me how to download > editable copy of the book and what should I know to edit it. I know how > to make patch or so.
First, you need to install subversion (you don't need any of the optional deps) and docbook (I always install SGML-Common through to DocBook XSL Stylesheets, not sure how much is actually needed). After that, you can get anonymous access for your own local copy of the book: svn co svn://linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/ Render the editor's guide (edguide) and the BOOK by running 'make' in those directories. You should check the Makefile first - I use symlinks so that my rendered cop(y,ies} is/are created where I want it/them to be. Read the editor's guide. After that, create patches. Add or update the package, and the version in general.ent (and if new, add it to whichever xml file renders that section - for packages in foo/baz there is usually a file foo/baz/baz.xml putting the packages in order. At this point, don't change the date in general.ent, nor add changelog.xml entries - if one of us takes the patch, we'll do that for the date we apply it. If someone likes what you do, you seem responsive to any concerns, and you don't upset people, then you might get an offer. As to new packages: for a very long time, we were generally against adding new packages because the book was already unmaintainable. I seem to have driven a coach and horses through that barrier just by adding Wayne's gnome-3 stuff, but please ask for opinions on any package you wish to add (and, perhaps, where to put it), before spending time on a patch. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
