[Sugar-devel] The great OLPC/Sugar manual Booki migration begins

Walter Bender walter.bender at gmail.com
Sun Nov 28 16:00:27 EST 2010


On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 3:47 PM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
> All the Sugar manuals we wrote using FLOSS Manuals have to be migrated
> from the current TWiki site to the new Booki site at:
>
> http://booki.flossmanuals.net
>
> If you are the maintainer of one of these books you can easily copy
> the book over by visiting the site, getting an account, and doing
> three things:
>
> 1).  Join the Group "One Laptop per Child/Sugar Labs".
>
> 2).  Import the book using the "My Manuals" page.
>
> 3).  Add the book to the Group.
>
> I could import all the books myself, but that would make me the chief
> maintainer of the books, an honor I deserve about as much as Bristol
> Palin deserved to win on Dancing With The Stars.  If, after a
> reasonable amount of time (in other words, we have to migrate the book
> or risk losing it entirely) no maintainer comes forward I will import
> the books remaining.

Just tried to move the Sugar manual... Error while doing import... any
clues as to where to go from here?

thanks.

-walter


>
> As before, anyone can update any book.  The maintainer does not have
> any special privileges as far as I can see.
>
> Some advice:
>
> If you want to rename your book rename it in the TWiki Table of
> Contents page *before* you do your import.
>
> I don't know how this affects translations of books yet.  I would
> guess that these books stay where they are for the time being.  I have
> brought up the question on the FM mailing list.
>
> James Simmons
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Walter Bender
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