On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 11:12:20AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, R. Lahaye wrote:
>
> Since I have actually received at least one doc patch from a developer
> specific to 1.1.6 (name withheld to protect his developer reputation :-),
Are you telling me people are actually writing documentation for LyX? I
thought we didn't do that kind of thing anymore!
> I would like to formally request that a new CVS branch be made for lyxdoc
> - probably with "lyxdoc" for the new documentation and "lyxdoc_1.1.5" for
> the 1.1.5 stuff, similar to the source code branches, and with the same
> user access as now.
That sounds like a good branching.
> Lars, (and/or whoever else controls this stuff), can this be done
> soon? (Is this something that I could in principle do? I'm pretty ignorant
> of the magic of CVS ...) Any arguments to the contrary?
You can definitely make your own branches -- Allan did for GUI stuff, e.g.
As for how, I'd suggest Ring TFM, although if you're lucky Lars will give
you some info for free. (I would give you info for free if I had a clue.)
I think it's pretty easy, though. Merging seems to be the difficult part,
but the exciting aspect of lyxdoc is that AFAICT you'll never have to merge,
because any new feature will be put into the trunk. You wouldn't add
something to the lyx1.1.5 docs which would then have to be added to 1.1.6.
(I could imagine wanting to merge the other way, if someone sent in a patch
with documentation for a feature that's been around for a while but never
had docs before. But that should be pretty easy, and can be handled on a
case by case basis.)
-Amir
