Quite interesting. I was talking about the udig-docs repository with
the walkthrough OpenOffice documents. Is this deprecated. Last push was in
March!? Need to be clarified before starting at two different points ;)

Frank

2011/6/27 Jody Garnett <[email protected]>

>  I have been looking into seeing if we could use the github wiki for our
> "user guide"; thus far it is not 100% between the mediawiki syntax supported
> by github and the media syntax supported by the WikiText editors in eclipse.
> My preference is to hack away at these things on the eclipse side; but
> having a public wiki has been very helpful.
>
> I do not want to move all the documentation to github / wiki format as that
> does not end up looking very good. Previous copies of the docs linked to the
> separate image files stored on disk; this was fine until we updated the
> screen snaps (as small differences in sizes depending on the version of
> windows used resulted in pictures looking always just a little but off).
>
> So we need a story for the screen snaps that makes a bit of sense; perhaps
> we can see if the quickstart docs we make of the live dvd can work on the
> github wiki (it does support RST after all)?
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On Monday, 27 June 2011 at 9:34 PM, Frank Gasdorf wrote:
>
> Fantastic! I guess that would also the final version for the FOSS4G in
> September this year. And like Cameron wrote its not for the docs, only for
> the setup and install scripts and occasional bugs would be OK.
>
> And btw I'm happy that the UDIG-1763 thing is already fixed! Thanks again
> Jesse!
>
> Just a suggestion for documentation enhancement:
> - Could we take screenshots and push these to udig-docs on github? We could
> take these for Windows 7, ubuntu, mac os and so on and could also be used
> for the Live DVD Quickstart as well (800x600 and/or 1024x800)
>
> Cheers, Frank
>
> 2011/6/27 Jody Garnett <[email protected]>
>
>  Hi Frank; let us take discussion to the uDig devel email list. We have
> gotten the patch in to support use of the nautrual earth dataset; I was
> otherwise occupied over the weekend and did not get a chance to try for a
> uDig 1.2.2 release.
>
> Let me try and accomplish the following before Friday; if not we should
> translate the english quickstart 1:1.
>
> 1) release a 1.2.2 snapshot
> 2) update the walkthrough using the snapshot and natural earth
> 3) tag the result as 1.2.2 and upload release for live dvd use
> 4) allow you to test the install script and confirm everything works
> 5) build the installers and otherwise make a release anouncements
>
> Does that sound about right?
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On Monday, 27 June 2011 at 7:16 PM, Frank Gasdorf wrote:
>
> Hi Jody,
>
> properly I answered in the wrong thread and therefor it was skipped. Have
> you already looked into the install_udig.sh script for the Live-DVD? I
> would commit it right after udig was released. Cameron Shorter wrote a
> mail these days that the "feature"/code freeze is on 4th of July. Can I give
> you support for the 1.2.2 release train?
>
> Let me know, otherwise I going to translate the English quickstart 1:1 with
> the data downloaded from refractions.
>
> Cheers, Frank
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Frank Gasdorf* <[email protected]>
> Date: 2011/6/21
> Subject: Re: [udig-devel] PSC Update 21/6/11
> To: Jody Garnett <[email protected]>, udig-dev <
> [email protected]>
>
>
> Jody, I just created a patch for the install_udig.sh script. Properly you
> could try this before commit (and of course after final release 1.2.2
> upload)
> What I did: removed data download and extracted udig version (for html docs
> and installer zip)
>
> Cheers, Frank
>
>
>
>
>
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