[publican-list] Installing from source on fedora

[Ruediger Landmann]

  On 10/15/2010 02:59 PM, Jeffrey Fearn wrote:
> Andrew Ross has kindly documented how to install and run trunk: 
> https://fedorahosted.org/publican/wiki/Installing
>
> If you are feeling game and would like to risk your productivity the 
> instructions there should help you!
>
+1

Can I add that this is the number one way in which people can help out 
with Publican development? If you're running trunk, notice something 
weird, *and file a bug*, the issue can get corrected before the next 
version hits the streets. As Linus' Law states: "Given enough eyeballs, 
all bugs are shallow."[0]

Nobody builds your books more often than you, and nobody knows your 
books as well as you do; therefore nobody else is anywhere near as 
likely to notice anything strange about them.

Once you have the Build script set up on your system as described on 
Andrew's wiki page, upgrading to a new version of trunk takes no more 
than two commands and a couple of minutes.

If there's ever something seriously broken in trunk, downgrading to the 
latest stable version is a single command and even less time than that.

The key, of course, is reporting anything strange that you see, and not 
just working around it[1] or ignoring it.[2]

Cheers
Rudi

[0] Eric S. Raymond, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" -- 
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ar01s04.html
[1] 
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N82afJPvr7Q/Riy-oWpCtUI/AAAAAAAAB9k/cOO1gPQ0GH0/s320/not_my_job.jpg
[2] http://humour.200ok.com.au/img/not-my-job-redux.jpg