Re: Canonical jhbuild documentation
Mathieu Stumpf <[email protected]> Fri, 13 Feb 2015 17:49:03 +0100
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============3405720856811422065== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------020109070600000800000006" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------020109070600000800000006 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi sri. Sounds a good idea. Also the title of the wiki page make me wonder about renaming jhbuild=20 itself to something like "gnome-build" (with all respect for James=20 Henstridge work). Now as far as my experience is concerned the gnome wiki documentation=20 already significantly improved last months. Le 11/02/2015 13:00, [email protected] a =E9crit : > [gnome-love] Canonical jhbuild documentation.eml > > Sujet : > [gnome-love] Canonical jhbuild documentation > De : > Sriram Ramkrishna <[email protected]> > Date : > 10/02/2015 20:27 > > Pour : > desktop-devel-list <[email protected]>, gnome-love=20 > <[email protected]> > > > Problem: we have many pages on jhbuild documentation > > We want to eliminate all of this and have > > https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeLove/BuildGnome > > There seems to be some objections to removing some of the more > in-depth jhbuild documentation. I think overall this is a little > confusing, they are also unmaintained. BuildGnome is maintained and > also has been converted to Mallard. > > I would like to propose that BuildGnome be the canonical documentation > for people trying to setup a build. Any other documentation should > be retired and/or should be merged into the jhbuild main line > documentation for advanced users. If people want, they can put in > recipes or links to other documentation. For instance, for Arch > Linux, the arch wiki has a jhbuild reference on how to get it going. > > > I would like to start removing the confusion when trying to create > jhbuild. An easy experience for newcomers mean a better likelihood of > casual volunteers being able to come in and start working on at least > the simple stuff. > > > So Proposal is:https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeLove/BuildGnome > > is the only documentation on wiki.gnome.org, the rest gets retired and > merged into jhbuild documentation. > > sri > --------------020109070600000800000006 Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html> <head> <meta content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dwindows-1252" http-equiv=3D"Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor=3D"#FFFFFF" text=3D"#000000"> Hi sri. Sounds a good idea.<br> <br> Also the title of the wiki page make me wonder about renaming jhbuild itself to something like "gnome-build" (with all respect for James Henstridge work).<br> <br> Now as far as my experience is concerned the gnome wiki documentation already significantly improved last months.<br> <br> <br> <div class=3D"moz-cite-prefix">Le 11/02/2015 13:00, <a class=3D"moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href=3D"mailto:gnome-love-req= [email protected]">[email protected]</a> a =E9crit=A0:<br> </div> <blockquote cite=3D"mid:[email protected]" type=3D"cite"> <fieldset class=3D"mimeAttachmentHeader"><legend class=3D"mimeAttachmentHeaderName">[gnome-love] Canonical jhbuild documentation.eml</legend></fieldset> <table class=3D"header-part1" border=3D"0" cellpadding=3D"0" cellspacing=3D"0" width=3D"100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <div class=3D"headerdisplayname" style=3D"display:inline;">= Sujet=A0: </div> [gnome-love] Canonical jhbuild documentation</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div class=3D"headerdisplayname" style=3D"display:inline;">= De=A0: </div> Sriram Ramkrishna <a class=3D"moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href=3D= "mailto:[email protected]"><[email protected]></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div class=3D"headerdisplayname" style=3D"display:inline;">= Date=A0: </div> 10/02/2015 20:27</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table class=3D"header-part2" border=3D"0" cellpadding=3D"0" cellspacing=3D"0" width=3D"100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <div class=3D"headerdisplayname" style=3D"display:inline;">= Pour=A0: </div> desktop-devel-list <a class=3D"moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href=3D= "mailto:[email protected]"><[email protected]>= ;</a>, gnome-love <a class=3D"moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href=3D"mailt= o:[email protected]"><[email protected]></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <br> <div class=3D"moz-text-plain" wrap=3D"true" graphical-quote=3D"true= " style=3D"font-family: -moz-fixed; font-size: 12px;" lang=3D"x-unicode"> <pre wrap=3D"">Problem: we have many pages on jhbuild documentati= on We want to eliminate all of this and have <a moz-do-not-send=3D"true" class=3D"moz-txt-link-freetext" href=3D"https= ://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeLove/BuildGnome">https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeLove/= BuildGnome</a> There seems to be some objections to removing some of the more in-depth jhbuild documentation. I think overall this is a little confusing, they are also unmaintained. BuildGnome is maintained and also has been converted to Mallard. I would like to propose that BuildGnome be the canonical documentation for people trying to setup a build. Any other documentation should be retired and/or should be merged into the jhbuild main line documentation for advanced users. If people want, they can put in recipes or links to other documentation. For instance, for Arch Linux, the arch wiki has a jhbuild reference on how to get it going. I would like to start removing the confusion when trying to create jhbuild. An easy experience for newcomers mean a better likelihood of casual volunteers being able to come in and start working on at least the simple stuff. So Proposal is: <a moz-do-not-send=3D"true" class=3D"moz-txt-link-freetex= t" href=3D"https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeLove/BuildGnome">https://wiki.gnom= e.org/GnomeLove/BuildGnome</a> is the only documentation on wiki.gnome.org, the rest gets retired and merged into jhbuild documentation. sri </pre> </div> </blockquote> <br> </body> </html> --------------020109070600000800000006-- --===============3405720856811422065== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ gnome-love mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love --===============3405720856811422065==--