14:00:46 #startmeeting Docs Project Meeting - Agenda: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_Project_meetings 14:00:46 Meeting started Mon Dec 17 14:00:46 2012 UTC. The chair is bcotton. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 14:00:46 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 14:00:50 #meetingname Fedora Docs 14:00:50 The meeting name has been set to 'fedora_docs' 14:00:54 * claneys 14:00:57 #topic Roll Call 14:00:58 * Capesteve waves 14:01:05 * jjmcd 14:01:10 * lnovich here 14:01:26 * pkovar is here 14:01:42 * randomuser 14:02:07 * zoglesby is here 14:03:51 this makes better attendance than last week! 14:05:58 #chair jjmcd zoglesby 14:05:58 Current chairs: bcotton jjmcd zoglesby 14:06:19 #info Participants are reminded to make liberal use of #info #link #help in order to make the minutes "more better" 14:06:34 #topic Follow up on last week's action items 14:07:08 zoglesby: i believe i saw the GA announcment on the mailing list, right? 14:07:24 bcotton: indeed, work has started, but it is slow 14:07:42 how aboot your other action item: removing liberation fonts from RN? 14:08:07 bcotton: I did not get that done, I am having auth issues with git that I need to work out 14:08:44 zoglesby, do you need to delegate? 14:08:47 do you need to pass that off or do you want to keep it assigned to you 14:09:04 randomuser: stop being more concise than me 14:09:08 :-) 14:09:12 bcotton: if someone could do it that would be better 14:09:20 it is only one line that needs removed 14:09:38 * zoglesby notes that we also need to get the master/f18 issue fixed 14:09:58 i can be mostly as capable for doing that removal of the line 14:10:00 some people are working out of master other are working out of f18 and right now they are out of sync 14:10:34 zoglesby, wasn't that just me working out of f18, and jjmcd was fixing it? 14:10:34 #action randomuser to remove Liberation fonts from Release Notes 14:10:46 i didn't know any better, sorry 14:11:07 I didn't fix it, just hacked around it 14:11:16 It will take some doing to unravel 14:11:18 randomuser: it was lots of people (I am just as guilty as I have been out of the loop for a while) 14:11:52 (since jreznik also did his action item, and we're talking about the RN, i'm just going to #topic it) 14:12:00 #topic Release Notes 14:12:20 bcotton: sorry! 14:12:57 zoglesby: no worries 14:12:58 jjmcd: I think a merge should be able to get the two insync 14:13:42 zoglesby, possible. Depends on what commits went where 14:14:41 either way it is something that needs looked at (and maybe a friendly reminder sent to the list about workflow) 14:15:11 is this something we should leave for the push of the GA notes to the f18 branch? 14:15:57 randomuser, we push RNs into F18 differently 14:16:00 it sounds like something we should fix asap 14:16:07 the longer we let it linger, the messier it could get 14:16:12 I can work on pulling individual commits over 14:16:15 Problem is we have commits in both branches, and there should be none in F18 14:16:57 I don't think there are a lot out of place, but one needs to look at commits in both branches to tell whether there are conflicts 14:17:01 it could be easy as long if nothing conflicts, or it could be a nightmare 14:17:12 zoglesby, exactly 14:17:13 it seems like we'd be going backwards, from the translation perspective, to purge commits from f18 14:17:29 would it be sufficient to make sure that master has everything we want in final? 14:17:34 randomuser, Release Notes are an entirely different problem than Guides 14:17:41 randomuser: we don't need to take commits out of f18, we need to get them back into master 14:17:43 randomuser, yes 14:18:05 okay 14:18:12 Because basically, we blow away everything in F18/en-US and copy in the master content 14:18:39 well, i'm willing to work on pulling commits into master, as I suspect it is mostly my mess to clean up 14:18:50 I think the first step would be try and merge f18 into master, if that works then we have no issues. 14:19:00 Don't know that that's the case, I should have been paying closer attention 14:19:13 If not then we need to start cherry picking, and it will become harder 14:19:19 zoglesby, not such a bad plan 14:19:27 Then probably a good proofread 14:19:33 +! 14:19:35 or +1 14:21:06 so who wants ride herd 14:21:23 I can gonna try to merge, it will be a good practive to git :) 14:21:25 wants to, even 14:21:30 practice 14:21:59 maybe need help, but i know that i can count on you :) 14:22:41 #info Commits have been made into the F18 branch of the RN (the workflow for RN is that all edits are made in master) 14:22:51 zoglesby, in my experience, git problems can be fixed with a fresh clone or d/l a new cert 14:22:55 #action claneys to attempt a git merge 14:23:17 * jjmcd has to do the directory thing because probably nobody else can 14:23:18 good luck claneys 14:23:29 lol thanks. ^^ 14:24:50 jjmcd: the directory move for the installed RN? 14:24:59 you mean: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/17/html-single/Release_Notes/index.html#sect-Release_Notes-Dir-Change 14:25:17 that's what i wanted to discuss now :-) 14:25:20 bcotton, yes. Don't think I will get to it this week tho, hard to tell. This is the time of year of honeydos 14:25:59 #action jjmcd to update the install directory for the Release Notes 14:26:08 pkovar: discuss away 14:26:58 bcotton: just wanted to mention this during the meeting 14:27:03 ... that the rn package is probably the only one using that dir in fedora 14:27:15 * jjmcd was reluctant to do that earlier because ppl knew where to find RNs since ~FC3 14:27:16 i mean the HTML dir 14:27:25 Yeah, used to be lots there 14:28:05 In FC1 & 2, RN's were in the root of the install CD - probably the best place until we started doing umpteen languages 14:28:22 So they moved to html where most docs were 14:28:48 I assume that was the logic, I didn't get involved until F9 or F10 14:29:42 But now we are alone :( 14:30:01 fwiw, i am talking to gnome people about improving desktop search (for docs & help) in f19+, so getting rid of the HTML dir could help here 14:30:31 Well, we will still be alone. /usr/share/docs is pretty much exclusively GPL copies 14:30:55 jjmcd: right, using /usr/share/help would be even better 14:31:27 We used to have an xml there, until something happened with yelp, I don't even remember what now 14:31:30 but it has a slightly different hierarchy for translation dirs etc. 14:31:40 yep, and we dealt with that 14:31:59 'Actually, a much more elegant solution than what we have now 14:32:24 was this related to this page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Desktop_Documentation_Presentation_Options 14:32:25 ? 14:32:32 I think it may have been the publican conversion that moved us away from that 14:32:45 hm, ok 14:33:34 jjmcd: I think it was the lack of support for non-gnome desktops, but I may be wrong 14:33:50 zoglesby, that's right, that was an issue 14:34:10 I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to also produce for KDE 14:34:23 pkovar, there has been discussion of making guides available as RPMs - it might be good to come to a consensus for their location in the filesystem 14:34:28 And there was even an effort to merge khelpcenter with yelp 14:34:34 could probably talk to publican folks about using /usr/share/help in the future... don't know much about KDE help 14:34:53 But there seems to be little in the way of KDE resources to help 14:35:03 randomuser: yes, agreed 14:36:13 Does yelp still use xml? I thought it all converted to Mallard. Which was another issue 14:36:30 jjmcd: mallard is still xml-based 14:36:41 not much changed actually 14:36:42 but different 14:36:50 different markup, yes 14:37:02 we would have to maintain two sources, or come up with a conversion 14:37:17 the locations are the same as with docbook help in gnome 2 14:37:36 And as I recall, Mallard is not very document friendly. Logic is around online help rather than a document 14:38:23 jjmcd: mallard is not that related to this discussion i think, the important thing is that yelp supports HTML 14:38:38 that is it can view our publican docbook guides 14:38:45 without major issues 14:39:02 Ahh, that's an improvement. It used to be hopeless with html 14:39:14 so that users could use a single app to view gnome & fedora docs 14:39:44 jjmcd: the html support is quite good now (thanks to webkit) 14:40:29 And in principle it could deal with the languages for us instead of our current hack 14:40:41 jjmcd: yes 14:42:31 i think i will start a thread in publican list and cc doc list 14:42:35 so are we all set on RN for now? 14:42:40 to get things moving a bit 14:43:34 #topic Schedule and Guides 14:43:47 #link http://jreznik.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-18/f-18-docs-tasks.html 14:44:30 #info GA announcement due 18 December 14:44:42 #info Guide String Freeze deadline has passed 14:44:57 #info GA release is 8 January 14:46:01 anything on guide or the schedule? 14:46:58 * lnovich hears crickets 14:48:28 #topic Outstanding BZ tickets 14:48:33 #link http://tinyurl.com/lbrq84 14:49:44 #topic Open Floor discussion 14:51:30 Anyone have docs related plans for FUDCon NA? 14:53:00 i guess not :/ 14:54:19 #action bcotton to add FUDCon NA to the meeting agenda 14:54:25 last call 14:54:59 bcotton: one more thing 14:55:12 pkovar: go ahead 14:55:25 can you add /usr/share/help to the meeting agenda as well? thanks 14:55:55 so that I don't forget 14:56:12 #action bcotton to add /usr/share/help to meeting agenda for pkovar 14:56:24 great :-.) 14:56:29 that's all from me 14:57:11 okay, thanks everyone! 14:57:13 #endmeeting