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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