[opensuse-doc] The openSUSE distribution chages are way ahead of documentation?

2006-09-30 Thread Rajko M
Versions of suse are coming in so fast pace that documentation writers and translators have no chance to follow the changes, and that is for sure systematic error that is taken over from Linux (open source) development process. It is obvious from amount of changes that are introduced almost daily

Re: [opensuse-doc] The openSUSE distribution chages are way ahead of documentation?

2006-09-30 Thread Alexey Eremenko
I believe that in order to solve documentation problem, community must help.In order for the community to help, we need tools - that is wiki (which exists on the webpage) *and* a conversion tool to convert that wiki to RPM to install offline. There is *no* such conversion tool available, and so it

Re: [opensuse-doc] The openSUSE distribution chages are way ahead of documentation?

2006-09-30 Thread Sean Wheller
On Saturday 30 September 2006 10:53, Rajko M wrote: > Please add your comments and ideas. > Helping to organize documentation is just as important as to bring in > the latest software version. Rajko its worse than that. SuSE documentation sources are not in a revision control repo despite the fac

Re: [opensuse-doc] The openSUSE distribution chages are way ahead of documentation?

2006-09-30 Thread Sean Wheller
On Saturday 30 September 2006 11:03, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > I believe that in order to solve documentation problem, community must > help. > > In order for the community to help, we need tools - that is wiki (which > exists on the webpage) *and* a conversion tool to convert that wiki to RPM > to

Re: [opensuse-doc] The openSUSE distribution chages are way ahead of documentation?

2006-09-30 Thread jdd
Alexey Eremenko a écrit : To Novell: please allow the community to write docs, that will be included in the distro for offline use (in RPM package, HTML format). as a very lon time linudoc contributor, I know quite well the problem, but have no simple solution :-( A goos documentation have

Re: [opensuse-doc] The openSUSE distribution chages are way ahead of documentation?

2006-09-30 Thread Rajko M
jdd wrote: > Alexey Eremenko a écrit : > >> To Novell: please allow the community to write docs, that will be >> included in the distro for offline use (in RPM package, HTML format). That would be one solution too. Included rpm for HowTo is probably example of the way you would like to have wiki

Re: [opensuse-doc] The openSUSE distribution chages are way ahead of documentation?

2006-09-30 Thread Rajko M
Sean Wheller wrote: > On Saturday 30 September 2006 11:03, Alexey Eremenko wrote: >> I believe that in order to solve documentation problem, community must >> help. >> >> In order for the community to help, we need tools - that is wiki (which >> exists on the webpage) *and* a conversion tool to con

Re: [opensuse-doc] The openSUSE distribution chages are way ahead of documentation?

2006-09-30 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Just a short remark to this thread: Novell has a documentation team working on our manuals, nothing has changed here (see http://en.opensuse.org/Documentation_Team). It's not developers writing manuals, it's dedicated editors - some of them coming from development and others from other areas. S

Re: [opensuse-doc] The openSUSE distribution chages are way ahead of documentation?

2006-09-30 Thread jdd
Rajko M a écrit : - The categorization, naming structure. I started that, jdd started that, and everything didn't moved from the beginning. If you ask me for the links, I lost even that. It is on the openSUSE wiki :-) (this sounds as helpful, as many help files) the true problem is _not_ the

Re: [opensuse-doc] The openSUSE distribution chages are way ahead of documentation?

2006-09-30 Thread Ruediger Steffan
Hello, I am Ruediger Steffan, located in Germany, and would like to volunteer in writing and/or translating documentation. My job is customer advisor for telecommunication and DSL. In spare time I am distance-studying industrial engeneering and will start with degree dissertation in spring 2007.It

Re: [opensuse-doc] The openSUSE distribution chages are way ahead of documentation?

2006-09-30 Thread Rajko M
Andreas Jaeger wrote: > Just a short remark to this thread: > > Novell has a documentation team working on our manuals, nothing has > changed here (see http://en.opensuse.org/Documentation_Team). It's > not developers writing manuals, it's dedicated editors - some of them > coming from developmen

Re: [opensuse-doc] The openSUSE distribution chages are way ahead of documentation?

2006-09-30 Thread Rajko M
jdd wrote: > Rajko M a écrit : > >> - The categorization, naming structure. >> I started that, jdd started that, and everything didn't moved from the >> beginning. If you ask me for the links, I lost even that. It is on the >> openSUSE wiki :-) (this sounds as helpful, as many help files) > > th

Re: [opensuse-doc] The openSUSE distribution chages are way ahead of documentation?

2006-09-30 Thread Rajko M
Ruediger Steffan wrote: > Hello, > I am Ruediger Steffan, located in Germany, and would like to volunteer > in writing and/or translating documentation. > My job is customer advisor for telecommunication and DSL. In spare time > I am distance-studying industrial engeneering and will start with degr

Re: [opensuse-doc] The openSUSE distribution chages are way ahead of documentation?

2006-09-30 Thread Rajko M
Rajko M wrote: > Jean (jdd) added some links to the: > http://en.opensuse.org/Documentation#openSUSE internals Documentation > so you can login to wiki and start writing articles. > Sorry for the link. It should be: http://en.opensuse.org/Documentation#openSUSE_internals_Documentation -- R