[GRASS5] Re: [GRASSLIST:3974] new grassdoc cvs module

[Moritz Lennert]

Markus reminded me that for checking out the cvs tree using

cvs -z3 checkout grass_doc

will make the download faster thanks to compression.

Moritz

On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 10:05:11AM +0200, Moritz Lennert wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This is to announce two events in the process of more serious documentation writing:
> 
> 1) There is now a grass_doc mailing list.
> 
> To subscribe send an empty mail to 
> 
> grass-doc-subscribe at it-zone.org
> 
> To send messages to the list, send them to:
> 
> grass-doc at it-zone.org
> 
> 
> 2) I just imported the new grass_doc module into the intevation cvs server. It is still work in (very early stages of) progress, so those who would like to work in it should contact me first.
> 
> Just do cvs checkout grass_doc to get it. It is quite big since there are some figures in the grassbook and in the tutorial. However, it should only be necessary to download these once.
> 
> 
> 
> I hope that we can now seriously start working on documentation.
> 
> The first tasks are:
> 
> - cleaning up and filling in the tutorial
> - weeding through the grassbook in order to identify the reusable parts, translating them to docbook/xml and integrating them into the tutorial
> - reading old documentation in order to select what is still usable and what needs to be archived
> 
> If anyone is interested in joining the effort, meet us on the list.
> 
> Moritz


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