On 08/29/2012 06:56 AM, Rich Dennis wrote:
On 08/29/2012 01:37 AM, Pasi Lallinaho wrote:
On 08/29/2012 01:35 AM, Rich Dennis wrote:
Went on #xubuntu-devel this morning. Don't think that I have what it
takes to do Docbook rewrites, but if you need any writers or grammar
editors, I would very much like to contribute.
Thanks. rd - amerigena
Help with writing and that stuff is welcome too! See the first part
of my last mail [1] for a quick introduction to the current situation
and you are ready to start working.
Cheers,
Pasi
[1]
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-devel/2012-August/008392.html
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Thank you. Got started last night on the Network -> Troubleshooting
section of the wiki.
Didn't make too many changes - thought that I'd start slow and make
sure that they're acceptable.
Thanks for getting back to me.
amerigena
Rich,
Thanks for joining the effort. You picked a good place to start! :-) I
just want to give you and others a heads up about that section and two
others under Section 5: Connecting and Home Networks. Those sections in
the 11.10 offline documentation had a lot of embedded links and other
special stuff that the wiki did not like. When I tried copying them to
the wiki, I kept getting "unhandled exception" errors. It took so long
to find the offending parts of the documents that I gave up and copied
them over as plain text. That means those three sections are going to
require a lot more work than all the others. First, they need to be
completely reformatted; and second, they are long and have a lot of
specific instructions that will need to be checked to see if they are
still accurate or relevant in Quantal.
Those sections need so much work that I'm afraid they might hold the
whole project up. If anyone else knows a better way of attacking them,
even starting from scratch or figuring out how to copy the formatted
text over again without errors, feel free.
I gather that the goal of this rewrite is to streamline and simplify the
old documentation. My approach (I signed up as a Writer and Grammar
Checker, not a Technical Editor) has been to copy over the old
documents, check them for accuracy against the Quantal changes, reword
and reformat as necessary and then leave it up to the Technical Editors
and project leads to decide what they want to rearrange and/or strip out.
That's why I see those sections taking so much work. Somebody else might
want to take a different approach.
Regards,
Jack
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