Re: Contributing to the Debian website - easier than some think
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 11:44:01AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 09:39:52AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: is that bike-shed or shed-red? maybe it should be both? though really it would be barn-red, I Red Rose Speedway perhaps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Rose_Speedway -- Chris. == One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted. -- Thomas B. Reed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Contributing to the Debian website - easier than some think
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 11:23:08AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 03:23:55AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: [breaking the thread on purpose because this is totally unrelated] On Thu,17.Jul.08, 15:28:09, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 08:27:25PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: You should contact debian-www about that. I think I recall a discussion about the children-distros page being outdated, but I guess manpower is missing again. I you would be willing to supply patches against the CVS source I'm sure they will be at least looked over. Or maybe that page Yeah, but you have to download the **WHOLE** website so you can submit patches. :-( Makes you think twice about helping. Although, hopefully, if you mention it on the debian-www mailing list someone will do the necessary without being an [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wonder where you got the info that you need to download the whole website, it should be corrected. It was in a post on the debian-www mailing list in a thread talking about whether two spaces after a full stop was acceptable English by M.J Ray, I think. so long as they paint the bike shed red, I don't care how many spaces they use... is that bike-shed or shed-red? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Contributing to the Debian website - easier than some think
On Sun,20.Jul.08, 11:23:08, Chris Bannister wrote: I wonder where you got the info that you need to download the whole website, it should be corrected. It was in a post on the debian-www mailing list in a thread talking about whether two spaces after a full stop was acceptable English by M.J Ray, I think. Ah, I understand, let me explain: The Debian website has a system for tracking old translations. Each translated page has a special header which tells what English CVS version it refers to. Now, consider somebody is making cosmetic changes to the English version (ex. changing to q), this would mark all translations outdated! In order to prevent this a perl script was written (smartchange.pl) which also takes care about the translations. Of course, in order for it to work it must have access to all translations of the page to be changed, hence the requirement to have a full checkout. I hope I was able to explain it simply enough, as I'm not sure I understand it very well ;) (see my .sig). Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Contributing to the Debian website - easier than some think
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 09:39:52AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 11:23:08AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 03:23:55AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: [breaking the thread on purpose because this is totally unrelated] On Thu,17.Jul.08, 15:28:09, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 08:27:25PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: You should contact debian-www about that. I think I recall a discussion about the children-distros page being outdated, but I guess manpower is missing again. I you would be willing to supply patches against the CVS source I'm sure they will be at least looked over. Or maybe that page Yeah, but you have to download the **WHOLE** website so you can submit patches. :-( Makes you think twice about helping. Although, hopefully, if you mention it on the debian-www mailing list someone will do the necessary without being an [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wonder where you got the info that you need to download the whole website, it should be corrected. It was in a post on the debian-www mailing list in a thread talking about whether two spaces after a full stop was acceptable English by M.J Ray, I think. so long as they paint the bike shed red, I don't care how many spaces they use... is that bike-shed or shed-red? maybe it should be both? though really it would be barn-red, I think. That particular color that all barns seem to be painted for no particular reason I know. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Contributing to the Debian website - easier than some think
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 03:23:55AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: [breaking the thread on purpose because this is totally unrelated] On Thu,17.Jul.08, 15:28:09, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 08:27:25PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: You should contact debian-www about that. I think I recall a discussion about the children-distros page being outdated, but I guess manpower is missing again. I you would be willing to supply patches against the CVS source I'm sure they will be at least looked over. Or maybe that page Yeah, but you have to download the **WHOLE** website so you can submit patches. :-( Makes you think twice about helping. Although, hopefully, if you mention it on the debian-www mailing list someone will do the necessary without being an [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wonder where you got the info that you need to download the whole website, it should be corrected. It was in a post on the debian-www mailing list in a thread talking about whether two spaces after a full stop was acceptable English by M.J Ray, I think. I am contributing translations into my native language and I only have the entire Romanian part (of course) and the entire English part (~63MB) which is needed as source and for test builds. I'm not a CVS expert, but you sure can checkout even less that this, e.g. only a specific directory which is of interest to you. Ohh, OK, maybe I read or misunderstood the particular post alluded to. If you don't want to use CVS, just go to cvs.debian.org, fetch the .wml source you need and use diff to create a patch (or just send the entire .wml if this it to complicated). I'll have a look, cheers. -- Chris. == One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted. -- Thomas B. Reed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Contributing to the Debian website - easier than some think
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 11:23:08AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 03:23:55AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: [breaking the thread on purpose because this is totally unrelated] On Thu,17.Jul.08, 15:28:09, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 08:27:25PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: You should contact debian-www about that. I think I recall a discussion about the children-distros page being outdated, but I guess manpower is missing again. I you would be willing to supply patches against the CVS source I'm sure they will be at least looked over. Or maybe that page Yeah, but you have to download the **WHOLE** website so you can submit patches. :-( Makes you think twice about helping. Although, hopefully, if you mention it on the debian-www mailing list someone will do the necessary without being an [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wonder where you got the info that you need to download the whole website, it should be corrected. It was in a post on the debian-www mailing list in a thread talking about whether two spaces after a full stop was acceptable English by M.J Ray, I think. so long as they paint the bike shed red, I don't care how many spaces they use... A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Contributing to the Debian website - easier than some think
[breaking the thread on purpose because this is totally unrelated] On Thu,17.Jul.08, 15:28:09, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 08:27:25PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: You should contact debian-www about that. I think I recall a discussion about the children-distros page being outdated, but I guess manpower is missing again. I you would be willing to supply patches against the CVS source I'm sure they will be at least looked over. Or maybe that page Yeah, but you have to download the **WHOLE** website so you can submit patches. :-( Makes you think twice about helping. Although, hopefully, if you mention it on the debian-www mailing list someone will do the necessary without being an [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wonder where you got the info that you need to download the whole website, it should be corrected. I am contributing translations into my native language and I only have the entire Romanian part (of course) and the entire English part (~63MB) which is needed as source and for test builds. I'm not a CVS expert, but you sure can checkout even less that this, e.g. only a specific directory which is of interest to you. If you don't want to use CVS, just go to cvs.debian.org, fetch the .wml source you need and use diff to create a patch (or just send the entire .wml if this it to complicated). Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
