Re: Restarting the LyX documentation project

2006-10-29 Thread Georg Baum
Am Donnerstag, 26. Oktober 2006 00:09 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: > Georg Baum schrieb: > > > but IMO you really should do this > > work in svn and not somewhere outside the official LyX project. > > I haven't said that I will develop the docs outside of SVN, but I still > doesn't have committing permis

Re: Restarting the LyX documentation project

2006-10-27 Thread Helge Hafting
Georg Baum wrote: If there is more documentation in a other language it just becomes a item on the TODO list: translate to English. If that happens with several languges then it will be impossible to update the english version. For example I could do that if only the german version is newe

Re: Restarting the LyX documentation project

2006-10-25 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: I haven't said that I will develop the docs outside of SVN, but I still doesn't have committing permissions on SVN. Ask Lars to give you SVN access. Then you can also work on the official Windows installer directly. Joost

Re: Restarting the LyX documentation project

2006-10-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Georg Baum schrieb: but IMO you really should do this work in svn and not somewhere outside the official LyX project. I haven't said that I will develop the docs outside of SVN, but I still doesn't have committing permissions on SVN. I would like to have the docs I'm currently working on in

Re: Restarting the LyX documentation project

2006-10-25 Thread Georg Baum
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Georg Baum schrieb: > >>> When a new feature is implemented to be released in the next LyX version >>> the developer(s) who wrote the feature create a separate LyX-document >>> describing the feature. Then somebody who wasn't involved in the >>> development of the feature check

Re: Restarting the LyX documentation project

2006-10-25 Thread Herbert Voss
Uwe Stöhr schrieb: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes schrieb: > >> Uwe, we would indeed be delighted to have a real doc maintainer. But I >> agree with Georg that, at least for a first cleanup phase, the work >> should be done on the main documents. The more ambitious plan can only >> be carried out if you m

Re: Restarting the LyX documentation project

2006-10-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Georg Baum schrieb: If there is more documentation in a other language it just becomes a item on the TODO list: translate to English. If that happens with several languges then it will be impossible to update the english version. For example I could do that if only the german version is newer

Re: Restarting the LyX documentation project

2006-10-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes schrieb: Uwe, we would indeed be delighted to have a real doc maintainer. But I agree with Georg that, at least for a first cleanup phase, the work should be done on the main documents. The more ambitious plan can only be carried out if you manage to create a real documentat

Re: Restarting the LyX documentation project

2006-10-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Georg Baum schrieb: When a new feature is implemented to be released in the next LyX version the developer(s) who wrote the feature create a separate LyX-document describing the feature. Then somebody who wasn't involved in the development of the feature checks if he's able to use the feature as

Re: Restarting the LyX documentation project

2006-10-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Georg" == Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Georg> This is too complicated IMO. I would already be very pleased if Georg> developers who implement a new feature/rearrange menu entries Georg> would simply add a section to the appropriate manual/reflect Georg> the changed menus. Georg>

Re: Restarting the LyX documentation project

2006-10-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Peter" == Peter Kümmel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> Georg Baum wrote: >> By all means it should be avoided that translated docs become more >> recent/contain more information. This is the case with the current >> german userguide, but if other languages start to do this too we >> get

Re: Restarting the LyX documentation project

2006-10-25 Thread Peter Kümmel
Georg Baum wrote: > Peter Kümmel wrote: > >> "Who codes decides" >> If there is someone who wanna write docs in his preferred language >> we should not stop him. > > No, but we should make him updating the english version at the same time. > >> If there is more documentation in a other language

Re: Restarting the LyX documentation project

2006-10-25 Thread Georg Baum
Peter Kümmel wrote: > "Who codes decides" > If there is someone who wanna write docs in his preferred language > we should not stop him. No, but we should make him updating the english version at the same time. > If there is more documentation in a other language it just becomes > a item on the

Re: Restarting the LyX documentation project

2006-10-25 Thread Peter Kümmel
Georg Baum wrote: > By all means it should be avoided that translated docs become more > recent/contain more information. This is the case with the current german > userguide, but if other languages start to do this too we get a mess. The > english version is the master version, the other languges

Re: Restarting the LyX documentation project

2006-10-25 Thread Georg Baum
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Hello LyXers, > > I want to restart to work on the documentation but at first want to have > you OK about the HOW. Great! > The documentation is currently out of date, many menu names have changed > since the last release, new features like change tracking are not or not > pr