Jeff Fry wrote: > I started playing with this tonight, and went as far as: > > 1. installing eclipse + rdt, subclipse at home > 2. importing https://svn.openqa.org/svn/watir/trunk > I suggest that you import from https://svn.openqa.org/svn/watir/trunk/watir instead. This will make some things easier for you, especially if you are using Eclipse.
I realize that the advice on the openqa.org website suggests you use the url above, but I don't believe this is a part of the openqa.org website that we are able to change. > > 1. making a trivial edit to the comments that generate the rdoc, and > 2. writing up a (still very rough) 'how to' for the above: > http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/How+To+Update+RDOC+and+Submit+Patches > This looks quite good. Thanks. > > That sounds fine. My bet, however, would be that you'd do better > to simply try reading through the archives to find questions that > people have asked whose answers aren't already in the doc. I > actually have a thunderbird (imap) archive of wtr-general with > many of these threads flagged. I wonder if there is a way i could > package this up and send it to you? > > > That sounds great. I did a bit of quick research and turned up: > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Moving_your_profile_folder > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_backup > > Brett, do you have any private data that would need to be taken out of > the archive? If so, it might be complicated. If not, it seems like > these links might light the way. Let me know. That is more than i'd like to send. I am separately sending you a zip file containing the specific mail archive i want to share with you. Hopefully you will be able to read it. > My first inclination is to add anything I know is missing to the rdoc > (perhaps because I depend so heavily on the rdoc when I code). That > said, the User Guide is clearly important. If there are others who > have more energy for updating the rdoc and y'all think the User Guide > is more in need of volunteer help I could easily be persuaded to work > there first. You should focus on what you think is most important. > I should finish by saying that I have a few days worth of time to > contribute over the next three weeks, and then probably no time for a > month or two. There's clearly more need for watir doc help than I'll > be able to do in that timeframe. Part of the reason we are moving this > conversation on list is so that if anyone reading this wants to join > in, you know you can. Please do! Thanks for your help and you willingness to share the process with others. If others have documentation updates for you, how should they send them to you? Wiki? Jira? Email? Bret _______________________________________________ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general
