[Qgis-community-team] Information for new manual contributors

[Otto Dassau]

seems to be a problem with the access. I try to find out more.

 Otto

Am Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:13:56 -0400
schrieb David Quinn <djq at MIT.EDU>:

> Hello All,
> 
> I just tried checking out the manual and got the following error:
> 
> <OPTIONS of 'https://svn.osgeo.org/qgis/docs/trunk/english_us/: Server 
> certificate verification failed: issuer is not trusted 
> (https://svn.osgeo.org)>
> 
> I'm using fink and SCToolbarButton on OSX 10.5
> This is my first attempt at using svn; can anyone suggest what I need to
> do?
> 
> Regards,
> David
> 
> 
> On 6/7/10 3:49 AM, Otto Dassau wrote:
> > Hi Bogus, David, Martijn and Ves,
> >
> > I just started to grant svn access for you. Please try to checkout the
> > manual with your osgeo ids - see below.
> >
> > more instructions on how to work on the english qgis manual in trunk
> >
> > a) Please read the wiki page. It includes a lot of hints:
> > http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Manual_Writing
> >
> > b) General information about working with latex and subversion
> > http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Working_with_Subversion_and_Latex
> >
> > Unfortunately, not all information is uptodate in the wiki page at the
> > moment. I will update it as soon as possible. So please ask, if you have
> > problems on the list and I will help.
> >
> > how to download the current trunk:
> >
> > You should be able to download the documentation trunk
> > ('master'-document) as a named user with your osgeo id. For a clean
> > checkout you need a svn-client.
> >
> > # Checkout as a named user
> > svn co --username<your username here>
> > https://svn.osgeo.org/qgis/docs/trunk/english_us/
> >
> > # Building
> >
> > To build the user_guide as a PDF-doc, change into the folder user_guide
> > and do the following:
> >
> > change into trunk/english_us/user_guide and type
> >
> > pdflatex user_guide.tex
> >
> > if it doesn't compile properly with a PDF as output, please write to the
> > list, because we just migrated from texlive to pdflatex and might be some
> > errors left.
> >
> > Regards,
> >   Otto
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