[openbeos] Re: Welcome Package [was Re: linuxformat mag: 30 days with Haiku]
- From: "scott mc" <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:53:37 -0700
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:23 AM, Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Humdinger wrote:
>> scott mc wrote:
>> > Perhaps we need that welcome package after all?
>>
>> I've been working on this a bit. Originally, I wanted to wait for anyone
>> to have a look at it until it's more fleshed out. But before three others
>> start their own efforts...
>>
>> Not being a developer, I concentrated on the user part, converting the
>> stuff from the Haikuware wiki stuff (http://www.haikuware.com/hikis/)
>> into simple HTML. I maybe have to look over the result to clean it up a
>> bit...
>> I also started with some new docs, that will eventually find their way
>> into the wiki.
>>
>> Have a look at it: http://www.webfile.ws/d/2005 (~480kb). I guess the
>> material should be local on the HD of the user, since his networking
>> might not work right away.
>> Is this the right direction for a welcome package? I mean... I could be
>> totally off in content and appearance...
>>
>> I could use some help, of course, esp. with the developer related stuff
>> (what documents should be linked to online, should some documents be
>> converted to static HTML and stored locally?).
>
> This is _very_ neat. The level of detail provided feels perfect to me.
> There are a few improvements I see, like making it more "navigatable", a
> few corrections here and there, but really, this is great.
>
> Now, I would propose to put this into the repository and continue to work
> on it there. It would also be great if we had a way to actually generate
> this from another format. I am not familiar with this yet, but people like
> Niels and DarkWyrm are and I am sure we can see how it's done from the
> existing documentation.
>
> What do other think about this approach? We could also give Humdinger SVN
> access to continue working on this in the repo. It feels much more sane
> than any manual form of collaboration.
>
> Best regards,
> -Stephan
>
>
+1 from me on putting this into SVN.
-scottmc
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