Release note beats for F9?

[Murray McAllister]

Hi,

Thanks everyone for your help so far. I have left a few questions in line:

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 09:29 +1000, Murray McAllister wrote:
>  > On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > >  Probably correct.  In the past Karsten and I -- for the most part --
>  > >  took care of organizing the Release Notes and the Installation Guide.
>  > >  Speaking in shame only for myself, I haven't spent much time on looking
>  > >  at Docs Project schedule adherence over the past month or so.
>  > >
>  > >  The things that need to happen:
>  > >
>  > >  * Check schedule to make sure it agrees with reality, since it was
>  > >  drafted some time ago.

Is this the schedule: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Schedule

Is one day (between the 16th and 17th of March), enough time to
convert the wiki to docbook? Or should the wiki freeze take place
earlier, in case there are any issues?


>  > >
>  > >  * Send additional messages to f-devel-l to get community members to
>  > >  write information on the wiki under Docs/Beats/* for their desired
>  > >  areas.

I think I did this here:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2008-March/msg00049.html

>  > >
>  > >  * Update the DocsDict page as needed, and clear out old content in each
>  > >  Beat, while retaining the new, using the page's "Get Info" history as a
>  > >  clue on how to preserve data.

Is this it: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsDict

I'm not sure what this is, or what is required...

>  > >
>  > >  * Find a responsible maintainer in the Docs community who will be
>  > >  accountable for Release Notes content conversion, tracking, and
>  > >  packaging.  That person will need to make noise and get Docs
>  > >  contributors to assist as needed.  I'll make myself available to help.

This was my plan for the release notes, please advise if it is
wrong/will make everything explode:

1. checkout release-notes/devel (I did this earlier).
2. follow the instructions here:
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/release-notes/devel/xmlbeats/steps-to-convert-FC7.txt?root=docs&view=markup

Massive kudos to the people who made those scripts possible!

3. chuck the xml files in the release-notes/devel/en_US directory
4. make pot (?)
5. commit.

Thanks again for your help.

Kind Regards,

Murray.

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