[Live-demo] docs ready for the website

Cameron Shorter cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Sun Aug 22 06:10:01 EDT 2010


Yes, Hamish is right.

I've created an Internationalisation Quickstart.
It doesn't have any images, which would be good, but content has been 
copied across from the front page.

On 22/08/10 17:12, Hamish wrote:
>> Remaining issues:
>> >  * I've removed descriptions about Internationalisation from
>> >  the home index.html page, but have not put it back any
>> >  where. Ideally it should be put into a quickstart, but I've
>> >  run out of time, and am not planning to do it. If someone
>> >  else wants to, the original text is still here:http://live.osgeo.org
>>      
> Please do not remove content either from the help docs or the wiki pages
> without moving it to a versioned page somewhere else. e.g. Put USB install
> docs for Ubuntu 9.10 onto a USB_Install_9.10 page, and another for 10.04,
> and then use a symlink/redirect page to link to the current one. Don't
> just delete it. Sure intro pages shouldn't swamp the reader, but the back-
> end reference material should not be nuked either. For one thing eg Google
> does not index eg archive.org or wiki history so users using a web search
> to find answers will be left without help, and for another thing volunteer
> contributers who have spent many hours researching and collecting solutions
> and tips will have next to zero motivation or desire to do it again if
> their last contribution was summarily deleted. ->  If you delete it, it's
> your responsibility to put it somewhere else, and link to the new place.
> (aka (and fwiw this is not directed at anyone in particular just general
> FOSS advice) please remember that when working on a collaborative volunteer
> project that everyone else's time is worth as much to them as yours is to
> you, and that everyone else is likely to be just as busy)
>
>
>    


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