I have nothing to add to Bruno's sound advice other than to make sure you link to this new page from the main Shotwell page at http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/Shotwell (under "More Information").
Thanks! -- Jim On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Bruno Girin <[email protected]> wrote: > David, > > That's a great idea! Editing the wiki is very easy: go to the URL of the > page you want to create, which should not exist yet, such as: > http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/HowToBuildInUbuntuFromSource > > The wiki will automatically ask you if you want to create a new page. > Create it and populate it. I suggest you use the Debian one as a > template (for this, go to the Debian page, click "Edit this page" at the > bottom to see the source). > > Formatting a wiki article is also very easy, you will notice that when > you edit a page, there is a link to a page that describes wiki > formatting just below the text area. > > As for the fact that Lucid will eventually be out of date, it will > always be easier to edit an existing page to add instructions for > Maverick, Natty, etc than start from scratch so I'd say go for it. > > Bruno > > On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 20:59 -0500, David Velazquez wrote: > > As I may have mentioned I'm currently working on a guide to compile the > > latest stable build of Shotwell from source in Ubuntu Lucid complete with > > screen shots, my own screw ups, and as many detailed instructions as I > can > > muster. I was first wondering if there would be an interest in this by > > either the developers or anyone else. Secondly, I was curious how one > would > > be able to create new pages on the Shotwell wiki similar to this one: > > http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/HowToBuildInDebianFromSource (I already have > an > > account). I could very well write it in OpenOffice or the like, but it > would > > be far easier to write and edit in the wiki itself given that I plan on > > embedding images to help people along and other things that would be best > > accomplished using the wiki-markup. > > > > I already have the images I plan to use and am currently working through > the > > process one more time since I ran into some issues myself the first time. > > The only potential drawbacks I can see for this is that Lucid will, > > eventually, be out of date and these instructions potentially rendered > > useless because of it. Thoughts? > > _______________________________________________ > > Shotwell mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell > > > _______________________________________________ > Shotwell mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
