On 11 August 2017 at 08:35, Christian Ridderström <c...@lyx.org> wrote:
> On 8 August 2017 at 18:28, Tommaso Cucinotta <tomm...@lyx.org> wrote: > >> I just noticed these broken links >> >> http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Manuals#download >> http://ftp.lyx.de/Documentation/en/Customization.lyx >> http://ftp.lyx.de/Documentation/en/Customization.pdf >> >> guess they're all broken. >> > > I can't do an anonymous login to ftp://ftp.lyx.de. > I can do an anonymous login to http://ftp.lyx.de. > I am _not_ able to see the subfolder /Documentation/, so it's gone, moved > or permissions changed. > > IIRC, Uwe is related to this. CC:ing him. (to his @lyx.org-account, which > could be wrong) > > With our release frequency, it shouldn't be a problem to manually [*] > update PDFs and upload the official manuals. > > Scott, are the manuals and their updating perhaps related to your notes on > release procedure? > Scott wrote: > I don't currently have any notes on this, but it's possible this was > written somewhere and I missed it. Please let me know the exact steps > that I should take if I should handle it, and I will add those to my > notes. I think I remember more now and I think Uwe does it. I've now CCed his web.de-address thanks to Jean-Pierre. /Christian > > As the problem seems to be the access, perhaps what's needed is a CI job > that monitors that the FTP is working? > > There's also a seemingly outdated (from y 2009) merged manual available at: >> >> http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentation#toc2 >> https://wiki.lyx.org/uploads//LyX/Manuals/1.4.2/merged_manua >> ls/merged_manuals-1.4.2.pdf >> >> However, besides fixing the links, considering the powerful conversion >> capabilities of LyX, I'd propose to keep at least some manuals accessible >> as HTML pages on the web, rather than, or in addition to, .lyx/.pdf >> downloads. >> > > I agree HTML pages online would be nice. > Not sure if our manuals can (in a nice way) just be exported as HTML > though. > > /Christian > > [*] It might make sense to have a CI job that builds PDFs etc from the > manuals as a separate test. > >
