[Live-demo] FW: IRC meeting to discuss RC3 and final releases of the liveDVD

Tue Mar 2 21:56:29 PST 2010

Hi All

In a discussion with Cameron (see e-mail trail below) I have volunteered to get all of the documentation currently available for each of the projects under the live DVD into a similar structure and style. This time around this will be a manual process, but hopefully we can automate this in future.

I would appreciate any comments, tips or other ideas. If any of the documentation needs updating first, please let me know so I can leave those for last.

Regards

Gaby van Wyk

-----Original Message-----
From: Cameron Shorter [mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 3 March 2010 2:10 PM
To: Gaby Van Wyk
Subject: Re: IRC meeting to discuss RC3 and final releases of the liveDVD

Gaby, nice talk with you and thank you for volunteering to look into the documentation for the LiveDVD.

As promised, here are details for updating documentation on the liveDVD.

0. Please email the live dvd list, live-demo at lists.osgeo.org, letting people know about your intentions. You are welcome to forward this email if you like.

1. We have asked package maintainers to create documentation for their projects according to this wiki page:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Build#Writing_docs
Once you are complete, you will likely want to change this process This section also notes where you will need to access the description files to update.

2. The script which installs the docs onto the LiveDVD is at:
https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/bin/install_main_docs.sh

3. Attached is material which could be used as a basis for your final introductory text.

4. In order to commit your changes back into subversion, you will need to create an osgeo user id for yourself, then tell me so that I can grant you svn permission, as per:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#OSGeo_User_Id

Good luck. Let me know how you are progressing.

Gaby Van Wyk wrote:
> Hi Cameron
>
> Yes I am willing to take that on.
>
> Ideally it would be nice to provide an application that will guide people through the creation of documentation, people can concentrate of creating content, style will be automated afterwards. I realise that we do not have the time for the creation of such an application, but I will try to establish a document framework and an Open Office Template (OTT) with some guidelines. Is that OK?
>
> For the future, would it be possible to find some space on the OSGeo server to host an application that can be used for collaborated development?
>
> Gaby
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cameron Shorter [mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 3 March 2010 7:02 AM
> To: Gaby Van Wyk
> Subject: Re: IRC meeting to discuss RC3 and final releases of the 
> liveDVD
>
> Gaby,
> I wonder whether you would like to take on the task of making the 
> LiveDVD documentation consistent between projects, and any other 
> issues you think should be addresses, as per agenda item in the 
> meeting this Friday morning (6am).
>
> Cameron Shorter wrote:
>   
>> I suggest we have a meeting this Th/Fr to discuss outstanding issues 
>> on the LiveDVD, as per wiki page below.
>>
>> Feel free to add items to the agenda
>>
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Meeting_Minutes#Th.2FFr_4_Ma
>> r_2010
>>
>>
>> Time: 
>> http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2010&month
>> =3&day=4&hour=19&min=0&sec=0&p1=22&p2=240&p3=195&p4=179&p5=137
>> <http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2010&mont
>> h=3&day=4&hour=19&min=0&sec=0&p1=22&p2=240&p3=195&p4=179&p5=137>
>>
>>
>> Location: irc://freenode.net#foss4g
>>
>> Background:
>>
>>    * According to our schedule, we are a few days late for our RC3
>>      release. I hope that we can the next release out this weekend,
>>      
>> http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdE1SYUN3YWJ2N1NpS
>> UczbW9IRWZNclE&hl=en_GB
>>
>>      
>> <http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdE1SYUN3YWJ2N1Np
>> SUczbW9IRWZNclE&hl=en_GB>
>>
>>
>>    * And we have 12 days till the final release.
>>    * This meeting is to set out our plan for getting this final release
>>      out the door.
>>
>> Agenda:
>>
>>    * Planning and documenting testing, as per: [Live_GIS_Disc_Testing].
>>      I want to have a brief test description for every package, and
>>      then track that someone has tested every application.
>>    * Decide on background image
>>    * Decide on menu structure, (can we loose the icons from the desktop?)
>>    *  From the next release, we need to test creating an ISO image. Do
>>      we have a volunteer?
>>    * Documentation: I'd love it if someone could go through all
>>      documentation and make it consistent (without changing any
>>      content). If we are really keen, it would be good if someone could
>>      incorporate Jody's OpenOffice overview of each package, and
>>      incorporate this into the documentation build. Jody has documented
>>      how to start up and run most of the packages, using screen
>>      snapshots and all. I've worked out how we can convert these docs
>>      into HTML from an install script using abiword. If we haven't got
>>      time for this, it will need to wait until the next release.
>>
>>
>>     
>
>
>   

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