[Nobug] Deadline for next NoBug release and PDF's

[Christian Thaeter]

benny.lyons at uniserv.com wrote:
> Morning, 
> Yes, indeed, I plan to do something.
> 
> Unfortunately my computer is on the wobble at the moment, I fixed
> up an old one at the weekend, so I didn't get to do a lot of NoBug
> at the weekend.
> 
> I'd like to do the following:
> Long-term I'd like to write a tutorial.  This would mean that we
> could do more examples, a little longer explanations which is a little
> lacking, I think, from the present documentation (and rightly so!).  
> It wouldn't be right to put that kind of stuff into the documenation 
> itself, which would then be too long; and, anyway, that's not the
> purpose
> of the documenation, which should remain as the main reference point.  
> The tutorial should ideally be short, just a sort-of-inofficial 
> 'getting started' thingy.  The idea is to get something finished and 
> possibly get feed back from this mailing list.
> 
> Again, that's long-term, time permitting. 
> 
> But to meet the mid-August deadline, I'd like to re-work the main 
> documentation.  I don't think any essential changes need to be made 
> there---apart from the new feature---just a matter of lucid 
> presentenation.
> 
> You mention
>     > ...some documentation review, formatting and 
>     > stylesheets for PDF generation have to be done
> The pdf version might profit somewhat by a few changes to the pdf
> style sheet.  That would be nice especialy since it is being printed.  
> Have you got someone in mind for the style sheets?

Andreas started on it, but he has the habbit to submerge for serveral
months and then reappear. I have no idea how far he has gone (I BCC'ed
him the first mail)

> 
> For documentation review, rework or even doing I'll have time in the
> evenings.  As long as 100 pages dont't arrive on midnight the 14'th, I 
> don't envisage any great difficulties there.  The sooner you check
> stuff in, however rough, the better it is for me to get to work on 
> the suff.

i'll merge the coverage branch to the devel branch later today, the
coverage branch then becomes obsolete by that and preparation for the
next release will happen in 'devel'.

> 
> OK, that's enough bla from me for the moment, just let me know
> what you think. 

.o(great, much thankyou, go on!)


	Christian
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Benny 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobug-bounces at lists.pipapo.org
> [mailto:nobug-bounces at lists.pipapo.org] On Behalf Of Christian Thaeter
> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 12:07 AM
> To: nobug at lists.pipapo.org
> Subject: [Nobug] Deadline for next NoBug release and PDF's
> 
> Hi,
> 
> as possibly all here know, we are going to FrOSCon with the Lumiera
> Team. Like last year I plan to do a bit NoBug promotion there too. My
> idea is to have a few printed manuals as giveaways to (very) interested
> People. There is still some work to do before NoBug is ready for the
> next release, mainly the new features (fault coverage checking) need to
> be documented (I am working on that) and maybe some planned features
> need to be implemented (well, I will not rush anything in, just when it
> works in time). Further some documentation review, formatting and
> stylesheets for PDF generation have to be done. I know that some people
> wanted to help with this things, I don't know how your time constraints
> are, but to make it possible to have this available for FrOSCon please
> inform me if you can spend any time on it ASAP. Of course it is ok for
> me if you can not spend any time soon on it, I just need to be informed
> to plan ahead what needs to be done (by me) for the next release and the
> PDF's. So I declare a voluntary deadline for the next release at Sun 15.
> Aug. anything later will likely not makeing into the release. If anyone
> of you has some half finished work please push this to some public
> repository (mob) at least so I can pick this up and complete it.
> 
> 	Thank you very much,
> 		Christian
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