[Sugar-devel] Potential volunteer offering technical writing

[Cherry Withers]

Hi Martin,

Could you please shed a light on which manuals in FlossManuals make up the
Help Activity? Some of us who will be jumping in to refresh it don't know
much about
the history.

"Right, here I am not sure if you have seen:  the current Help activity
is a combination of several floss manuals mixed together. And it looks
like it may have some tweaks and customizations."

Thank you!
---Cherry

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org>
> wrote:
> >> As for the use of FLOSSManuals as the source and L10n workflow for the
> >> Help Activity, sadly, I think the more pressing challenge may be the
> >> lack of documentation of the process employed by Seth and his
> >> collaborators in the original Help Activity creation from FLOSSManual
> >> sources.
> >
> > I am not worried about that.
>
> Well, yes and no :-)
>
> > The help activity is only a modified Browse activity with a lot of html
> > files in a directory.
> > I think there are different tasks and will be done by different people at
> > different times:
> > * Create a updated version of the documentation in Floss manuals.
>
> Yes
>
> > * Update the help activity
>
> Right, here I am not sure if you have seen:  the current Help activity
> is a combination of several floss manuals mixed together. And it looks
> like it may have some tweaks and customizations.
>
> > * Translate the manuals (like we did with 'Make your own Sugar
> Activities')
>
> Yep, though I think on this track we all agree that you'd really make
> a different activity for each language...
>
> > Would be good if the new manuals are cloned and we can  keep the old ones
> to
> > the users using the old version of Sugar
>
> +10 on this. Some Sugar versions are widely used...
>
>
>
>
> m
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