5 Jun 08:56
Re: Contributing to KDE-DOCS (long email)
From: Biju Mathew <bijumathew77@...>
Subject: Re: Contributing to KDE-DOCS (long email)
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.kde.india
Date: 2008-06-05 06:56:31 GMT
Subject: Re: Contributing to KDE-DOCS (long email)
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.kde.india
Date: 2008-06-05 06:56:31 GMT
Hi Roshan, I definitely appreciate the help posted above. As a person thinking to contributing to the documentation process of KDE I found this greatly helpful. But now I have several other questions. Hopefully someone could clear these for me as well. 1. When you choose to download and edit a certain docbook do you need to log it somewhere? I'm curious cause wouldn't several people make the same edits on the same document and email multiple copies of the same document to one of the above folks mentioned above. Also do you send in the documents after you have completed all changes or are partial updates are allowed? Do you need to contact the author of a certain document before you make changes ? 2. Before I even try to start documenting, which version of KDE would be recommended. I ask cause I have KDE 4.0. Should I be installing KDE 4.1? 3. Are there specific KDE features which pertain to certain distros only? The reason I ask is cause I installed KDE on my Ubuntu desktop and I'm just confirming that it would be fine to use the same for the above mentioned purpose. 4. There's a document freeze going on. In this situation what am I supposed to do. Could someone explain what someone new to this would do in the meantime. At the moment I'm reading the docbook guide. Although I do find it a bit intimidating I think I can manage. 5. I checked the docbook referred to in the example. Here is the URL(Continue reading)
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