Documentation files Missing on GnuCash.org

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Thu May 14 08:19:14 EDT 2015


> On May 14, 2015, at 6:42 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday 13 May 2015 14:13:41 John Ralls wrote:
>>> On May 13, 2015, at 10:49 AM, Tommy Trussell
>>> <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Unfortunately AFTER I recommended someone go to the
>>> http://gnucash.org web site and look at the documentation, I
>>> discovered the links are broken.
>>> 
>>> At http://gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?doc=guide when you click any of
>>> the content links, the site says Not Found
>>> 
>>> Not Found
>>> 
>>>> The requested URL /docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/pt01.html was not
>>>> found on this server.
>> 
>> Yes, the chapter heading pages got lost somewhere between git and the
>> website in the last update. I asked Linas to look into it on IRC but
>> never heard back. The subchapter links, e.g.
>> http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/chapter_oview.html,
>> work fine.
>> 
> It turns out there were a number of files missing on the web server. 
> These were new files that didn't exist in a previous version of the 
> documentation (forgotten git -add <new-files> in gnucash-htdocs-docs ?). 
> I have added them today and as far as I can tell the guide is now 
> working correctly.
> 
> Thanks for pointing this out.

More like “didn’t know about” than “forgotten”. That’s a bit of a hole in our procedure: How can we flag new files in the docs so  that they’re visible to the release tech when transferring them from gnucash-docs to gnucash-htdocs-docs?

Regards,
John Ralls




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