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To: Carlos Soriano Sanchez csori...@redhat.com
Cc: desktop-devel-list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org
Sent: Tuesday, 17 February, 2015 5:40:16 PM
Subject: Re: Canonical jhbuild documentation
Carlos Soriano Sanchez csori...@redhat.com wrote:
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When I created the series
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Subject: Re: Canonical jhbuild documentation
Carlos Soriano Sanchez csori...@redhat.com wrote:
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When I created the series of BuildGnome CodeContributionWorkflow my
intention was creating a simple straightforward workflow
for contributing to Gnome for newcommers to Gnome and/or FOSS
February, 2015 5:40:16 PM
Subject: Re: Canonical jhbuild documentation
Carlos Soriano Sanchez csori...@redhat.com wrote:
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When I created the series of BuildGnome CodeContributionWorkflow my
intention was creating a simple straightforward workflow
for contributing to Gnome for newcommers
Sent: Tuesday, 17 February, 2015 5:40:16 PM
Subject: Re: Canonical jhbuild documentation
Carlos Soriano Sanchez csori...@redhat.com wrote:
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When I created the series of BuildGnome CodeContributionWorkflow my
intention was creating a simple straightforward workflow
for contributing
: Tuesday, 17 February, 2015 5:40:16 PM
Subject: Re: Canonical jhbuild documentation
Carlos Soriano Sanchez csori...@redhat.com wrote:
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When I created the series of BuildGnome CodeContributionWorkflow my
intention was creating a simple straightforward workflow
for contributing to Gnome
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Carlos Soriano Sanchez
csori...@redhat.com wrote:
- What do I propose?
So, what we actually need is a Canonical documentation for contributing
gnome. In developers.gnome.org.
As I offered before for the Jhbuild one, I offer me volunteer (with whoever
wants
Carlos Soriano Sanchez csori...@redhat.com wrote:
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When I created the series of BuildGnome CodeContributionWorkflow my
intention was creating a simple straightforward workflow
for contributing to Gnome for newcommers to Gnome and/or FOSS. So the simpler
the better.
...
BuildGnome it is
Hello
(sorry for the delay, there were some problems with the email)
A little of history of the latest wiki jhbuild pages:
When I created the series of BuildGnome CodeContributionWorkflow my intention
was creating a simple straightforward workflow
for contributing to Gnome for newcommers to
Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote:
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I think though, as someone else further in the thread said, we want to
make a distinction between 'quick start' and the manual.
I honestly don't see why the manual can't contain a quick start
section - we do this in other documentation without
Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote:
https://wiki.gnome.org/HowDoI/Jhbuild is the one that seems to be
preferred by most docs newcomers and team members so from my point of
view it would be good that the final result resembles it and works
just as well.
Also jhbuild has been absorbing good practices
Sri, as the target audience of the HowDoI (as were many fellow attendees at
various hackfests), I'd be dismayed if it went away. I'm not a beginner and I
don't need to know all the switches, often I just need to know how to get it
running again. As Fred says, it's written by someone who can
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 4:33 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote:
Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote:
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Seems like you should talk this through with Carlos and Ryan - they're
the effective maintainers of the wiki pages in question. I know that
Carlos is keen to reduce the amount
Germán Poo-Caamaño wrote:
IMHO, the jhbuild documentation is more like a reference manual, whereas
the information for newcomers is like a tutorial (or expected to be).
Indeed it's mostly like that at the moment.
Maybe both could be in the same documentation/place, but the separation
Allan Day wrote:
It would be nice if somebody could contact the authors:
James Henstridge james at jamesh.id.au
C.J. Adams-Collier cjcollier at colliertech.org
Frederic Peters (ok, done)
David Turner (Cillian64, from GHOP, back in 2007/2008, I can't
find an
Frederic Peters fpet...@gnome.org wrote:
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I believe this is no longer a problem; when I tried to merge the
by-then new BuildGnome page into the manual, and converting it to
Mallard, the primary problem was of license incompatibility between
the contents from the wiki and the existing
Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote:
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Seems like you should talk this through with Carlos and Ryan - they're
the effective maintainers of the wiki pages in question. I know that
Carlos is keen to reduce the amount of duplication.
Yes, I sent this email after consulting with him and
On Wed, 2015-02-11 at 12:33 +, Allan Day wrote:
Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote:
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Um, I don't think it is. You originally said:
So Proposal is: https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeLove/BuildGnome
is the only documentation on wiki.gnome.org, the rest gets retired and
merged
On 11/02/2015, Frederic Peters fpet...@gnome.org wrote:
Allan Day wrote:
It would be nice if somebody could contact the authors:
James Henstridge james at jamesh.id.au
C.J. Adams-Collier cjcollier at colliertech.org
Frederic Peters (ok, done)
David Turner (Cillian64, from GHOP,
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015, at 01:00 PM, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote:
https://wiki.gnome.org/HowDoI/Jhbuild is the one that seems to be
preferred by most docs newcomers and team members so from my point of
view it would be good that the final result resembles it and works
just as well.
jhbuilding
On 11/02/15 12:28, Michael Hill wrote:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015, at 01:00 PM, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote:
https://wiki.gnome.org/HowDoI/Jhbuild is the one that seems to be
preferred by most docs newcomers and team members so from my point of
view it would be good that the final result resembles
Allan Day wrote:
People will always come across the official manual on
developer.gnome.org, since this ranks highly in search results. So, if
you really want people to easily find the introductory documentation,
it will have to live as a part of the official manual. I get the
The most
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
Problem: we have many pages on jhbuild documentation
Let's list them:
1. https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Jhbuild
2. https://developer.gnome.org/jhbuild/unstable/
3. https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeLove/BuildGnome
4. https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeLove/JhbuildIntroduction
On 10/02/2015, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote:
Problem: we have many pages on jhbuild documentation
We want to eliminate all of this and have
https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeLove/BuildGnome
There seems to be some objections to removing some of the more
in-depth jhbuild
Hi,
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 11:27:11AM -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
Problem: we have many pages on jhbuild documentation
Let's list them:
1. https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Jhbuild
2. https://developer.gnome.org/jhbuild/unstable/
3. https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeLove/BuildGnome
4.
In particular, we should identify material from the HowDoI/Jhbuild page
(which conflicts with the guidance on the BuildGnome page) that we want
to keep, and merge it into the BuildGnome page. We should not have
competing pages with competing advice; it's way too confusing for
newcomers.
Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 11:27:11AM -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
Problem: we have many pages on jhbuild documentation
Let's list them:
1. https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Jhbuild
2. https://developer.gnome.org/jhbuild/unstable/
3.
On 10/02/2015, Frederic Peters fpet...@gnome.org wrote:
Allan Day wrote:
People will always come across the official manual on
developer.gnome.org, since this ranks highly in search results. So, if
you really want people to easily find the introductory documentation,
it will have to live as
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote:
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
Problem: we have many pages on jhbuild documentation
Let's list them:
1. https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Jhbuild
2. https://developer.gnome.org/jhbuild/unstable/
3.
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