Re: [Ubuntu-manual] [Ubuntu Manual] Preparing for 12.10 series

2012-08-08 Thread Andrew Montag
I would like to take on the Instant Messaging section; I have updated the google spreadsheet to reflect this. Please let me know if you have any concerns. -Andrew On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:35 PM, c7p wrote: > Hello all, > > 1) > it's time to re-organize our author team as the authoring period

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Preparing for 12.10 series

2012-08-08 Thread Patrick Dickey
I forgot to mention also, that this would clear up the issue about user names. Instead of every author having to set up their computers with a fake persona (user name), only a small group would have to. The rest of the authors/editors could just use their normal accounts to do their chapters/secti

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Preparing for 12.10 series

2012-08-08 Thread Patrick Dickey
Hi Kevin, et al. I think the idea of Screenshot Editors (or at least people who are solely responsible for getting screenshots for the manuals) is a great idea. First off, it will ensure that we have consistent screenshots throughout. And secondly, it will reduce some of the workload on the autho

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Preparing for 12.10 series

2012-08-08 Thread Kevin Godby
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:35 PM, c7p wrote: > 1) > it's time to re-organize our author team as the authoring period has started > according to the proposed schedule [1]. > A safe date to start writing content is 23-30 of August, when there is > FeatureFreeze and UserInterface Freeze [2] > Now you c

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] [Ubuntu Manual] Preparing for 12.10 series

2012-08-08 Thread Patrick Dickey
I'm probably being overly picky, but here are my opinions on the survey questions (please, take them with a grain of salt). Instead of "evaluate", maybe use "rate"? In Question 2 > 2. How would you evaluate "Working with Ubuntu" sections ? > Should it be 2. How would you evaluate the "Working

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] User name in screenshots

2012-08-08 Thread Carsten Gerlach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Daniel, Am 07.08.2012 10:27, schrieb Daniel Schury: > I don't see the problem with translating the content of the fake > identity? Just produce an eMail in english, let it be translated > and the inbox is full :) So when taking a screenshot, one h

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] branch lock of quantal

2012-08-08 Thread Kevin Godby
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Carsten Gerlach wrote: > This means, you tried to push something to the repository, but it > didn't finish? So you should try it again, or? In this particular case, all of my commits have been pushed to the repository. --Kevin ___

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] branch lock of quantal

2012-08-08 Thread Kevin Godby
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Carsten Gerlach wrote: > This means, you tried to push something to the repository, but it > didn't finish? So you should try it again, or? Since it happened so long ago, I can only guess as to what occurred. But my guess is that I ran 'bzr push' and it uploaded m

[Ubuntu-manual] [Ubuntu Manual] Preparing for 12.10 series

2012-08-08 Thread c7p
Hello all, 1) it's time to re-organize our author team as the authoring period has started according to the proposed schedule [1]. A safe date to start writing content is 23-30 of August, when there is FeatureFreeze and UserInterface Freeze [2] Now you can make an outline of your chapter/section,

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] User name in screenshots

2012-08-08 Thread Carsten Gerlach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Am 06.08.2012 22:55, schrieb Patrick Dickey: > I had originally thought about this (and was going to suggest it), > but figured they would want the same information in all manuals > (screenshots and such)--just in case someone decided to downlo

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] branch lock of quantal

2012-08-08 Thread Carsten Gerlach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Kevin, Am 07.08.2012 23:24, schrieb Kevin Godby: > I ran bzr break-lock and released the lock. You should be able to > pull and push now. Thanks, now it works fine again. :-) > The locks happen if someone is uploading files to bzr at the exact

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Another manual

2012-08-08 Thread Paddy Landau
> Are the only changes needed concerning spelling errors (and/or style > errors, if you want it to look like US English)? Or does some of the > actual content need to be updated? We all agreed that it looked good when it was last updated (April 29th), so unless you yourself see something that need

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Another manual

2012-08-08 Thread Patrick Dickey
On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 10:00 +0100, Paddy Landau wrote: > > How is the poster out of date? > > The final poster (as seen in post #85 of the thread) is version 5. The > version on Spreadubuntu is version 4. You'll see a small formatting > error on the top right, where an arrow feeds into the wordi

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Another manual

2012-08-08 Thread Paddy Landau
> How is the poster out of date? The final poster (as seen in post #85 of the thread) is version 5. The version on Spreadubuntu is version 4. You'll see a small formatting error on the top right, where an arrow feeds into the wording itself. > The only "error" I see is a mis-spelling of Center A