[Grassroots-l] [IAEP] Updating Sugar documentation for release 0.84

[Walter Bender]

The FLOSS Manual team how best to handle the changes to the Sugar
Manual. Our plan is to archive the 0.82 manual and update to 0.84.

-walter

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Christoph Derndorfer
<e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> as some of you might be aware a new Sugar release - 0.84 - is going to
> be released at the beginning of March. So I thought it would a good time
> to start discussing how to update Sugar documentation to consider the
> changes and new features.
>
> Off the top of my head I can think of the following places which contain
> documentation that needs an overhaul:
>
> * wiki.sugarlabs.org
> * FlossManuals
> * Help-Activity
>
> (Probably the most widely asked question will be "How can I upgrade my
> XO to Sugar 0.84?" so this might be worth also putting on the Sugar Labs
> landing page and spread via the various developer blogs.)
>
> I think a relatively short and remote (but well planned!) weekend-sprint
> would go a long way in getting the necessary work done!
>
> Before that can happen though we would need to decide how to fork the
> existing documentation and make it *very clear* that going forward there
> will be different versions of Sugar made available by OLPC and Sugar Labs.
>
> I still have a very limited understanding of what exactly this entails
> and how it's going to work out but as far as the FlossManuals and
> Help-Activity documentation is concerned making clearly distinct
> versions - one for OLPC's 8.2.x releases and another one for Sugar Labs'
> 0.8x releases - seems like a reasonable starting point for me.
>
> Anyway, please let me know what you think and how we can make this
> happen! :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Christoph
>
> --
> Christoph Derndorfer
> co-editor, olpcnews
> url: www.olpcnews.com
> e-mail: christoph at olpcnews.com
>
>
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Walter Bender
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