Hi Martin, Could you please shed a light on which manuals in FlossManuals make up the Help Activity? Some of us who will be jumping in to refresh it don't know much about the history.
"Right, here I am not sure if you have seen: the current Help activity is a combination of several floss manuals mixed together. And it looks like it may have some tweaks and customizations." Thank you! ---Cherry On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Martin Langhoff <martin.langh...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonz...@laptop.org> > wrote: > >> As for the use of FLOSSManuals as the source and L10n workflow for the > >> Help Activity, sadly, I think the more pressing challenge may be the > >> lack of documentation of the process employed by Seth and his > >> collaborators in the original Help Activity creation from FLOSSManual > >> sources. > > > > I am not worried about that. > > Well, yes and no :-) > > > The help activity is only a modified Browse activity with a lot of html > > files in a directory. > > I think there are different tasks and will be done by different people at > > different times: > > * Create a updated version of the documentation in Floss manuals. > > Yes > > > * Update the help activity > > Right, here I am not sure if you have seen: the current Help activity > is a combination of several floss manuals mixed together. And it looks > like it may have some tweaks and customizations. > > > * Translate the manuals (like we did with 'Make your own Sugar > Activities') > > Yep, though I think on this track we all agree that you'd really make > a different activity for each language... > > > Would be good if the new manuals are cloned and we can keep the old ones > to > > the users using the old version of Sugar > > +10 on this. Some Sugar versions are widely used... > > > > > m > -- > martin.langh...@gmail.com > mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC > - ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff >
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