OpenOffice docs are not deprecated - although I did have trouble (as indicated) making them refer to "linked" images. We can try again if you like :-)
What I was thinking of moving to git hub was this: - http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/EN/Home Specifically the Quickstart: - http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/EN/Quickstart -- Jody Garnett On Tuesday, 28 June 2011 at 12:03 AM, Frank Gasdorf wrote: > 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] > (mailto:[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] > > > (mailto:[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 > > > > > (http://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] > > > > > (mailto:[email protected])> > > > > > Date: 2011/6/21 > > > > > Subject: Re: [udig-devel] PSC Update 21/6/11 > > > > > To: Jody Garnett <[email protected] > > > > > (mailto:[email protected])>, udig-dev > > > > > <[email protected] > > > > > (mailto:[email protected])> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Jody, I just created a patch for the install_udig.sh > > > > > (http://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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