Uncommitted release 2.4 x documentation
John Ralls
jralls at ceridwen.fremont.ca.us
Tue Nov 19 22:23:08 EST 2013
On Nov 19, 2013, at 4:23 PM, David Carlson <carlson.dl at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 11/19/2013 5:58 PM, David Carlson wrote:
>> On 11/19/2013 5:07 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>>> On Nov 19, 2013, at 2:45 PM, David Carlson <carlson.dl at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Several months ago I and a couple of other non-developers submitted some
>>>> documentation updates via bugzilla that never got committed to the 2.4
>>>> documentation. Now it is pointless to commit them to 2.4 series, but
>>>> they may still apply to release 2.6. How can we get them into the system?
>>> The open documentation patches are
>>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635386
>>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684709
>>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684719
>>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693493
>>>
>>> All of the patches on them are submitted by Frank Ellenberger and Christian Marchi, both of whom have commit. The second one has an attachment you wrote, but it's a plain text draft, not a patch.
>>>
>>> Do you have the bug numbers you're referring to?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> John Ralls
>>>
>>>
>> I deliberately used the word 'update' rather than the word 'patch'
>> because I am not conversant with the code necessary to convert plain
>> text into a patch. I am most comfortable using simple text editors or
>> Open Office type word processors.
>>
>> A quick search brought up only
>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693156
>>
>> That one was not well constructed, but I considered it to be a valid
>> suggestion at the time.
>>
>> Bug 684709 includes some discussion from both myself and David T about
>> our frustration with the process. I think the documentation topic of
>> that bug report has been committed, by the way, unless it has not yet
>> made it through all the necessary steps.
>> Also, I think the wiki info about how to submit documentation
>> suggestions was clarified after Bug 684709 was submitted.
>>
>> I thought that I had submitted two or three more documentation requests
>> after that which did not appear in my search. If I find them, I will
>> let you know.
>>
>> David C
>>
>>
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>
> I have found two others.
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=699430
> is marked as closed, but the content only appears in the nightly build
> of the help manual. I presume that it will be transferred to release
> 2.6 documentation.
Should be.
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=633590
> seems to be a work in progress that has gotten stalled. That covers an
> area that is seriously deficient in the documentation and imho it should
> be revived and given a very high priority.
Unfortunately Yawar hasn't been around for a few months. I don't know of
anyone else who can pick that up between now and the end of next month.
Regards,
John Ralls
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