Help activity

[David Farning]

Brian Jordan(CCed) has been the help maintainer.  He should be able to
shed more light on the situation.


david

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:10 PM, S Page <skierpage at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Fabian Affolter <fab at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
>> In the repos (the one at sugarlabs.org and dev.laptop.org) is Version 7
>> of 'help' available but there is a new image (Version 10) mentioned on
>> the wiki page [1].
>>
>> Where is the new source? Or is this just a mistake?
>> BTW, does anybody know where the source tarball of help could be found?
>
> That page http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Help_(activity) links to a newer
> v10 version of the .xo file that OLPC's Sj uploaded on 2008-09-26.
> You can install it on an XO, or unzip it.  As that page indicates, the
> content comes from http://en.flossmanuals.net/XO and
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/Sugar , somehow someone turns these into a
> set of HTML pages and creates the Help activity (and you would hope,
> also updates http://www.laptop.org/8.2.0/manual ).
>
> What might be happening is people are updating the *content* on
> Flossmanuals and somehow making new .xo bundles, but not always
> updating git.  Or vice-versa (thrice-versa?).  It looks like
> http://dev.laptop.org/git/activities/help and
> http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/help have changes up to v9 but not
> v10.
>
> To add to potential confusion, I think people have started updating
> the content on Flossmanuals to reflect Sugar 0.84, but there's no
> obvious "applies to release xx" in the pages.
>
> The people who really know might be on library at lists.laptop.org
>
> --
> =S Page
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