[Shotwell] Contributing to Yorba/Shotwell

[David Velazquez]

Of course this is only a proof of concept, if you will, but I've managed to
get it going and quite nicely. My first impressions are good. It will
definitely take some getting used to considering I only dabbled in html many
years ago. The hardest thing for me to understand will be the linking
structure and the ability to have a second guide, but I'm hoping that will
come naturally as I write more.

Starting Page<http://psych.radium.whatbox.ca/up/60082780c619eafa2d3780a0a3de4edd.png>

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As I get time I hope to experiment with adding pictures

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:01 AM, David Velazquez <
david.velazquez08 at gmail.com> wrote:

> This bears remembering I think, a lot of things can change in Shotwell.
> Though it was early in the morning for me I remember reading that Mallard
> was especially useful in organizing things so that changes could be made
> easily. I hope that's what I read.
>
>
> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 5:30 AM, Bengt Thuree <bengt at thuree.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Just a thought here that Shotwell is still in early days of development,
>> so we should bear that in mind when the various documentation is produced.
>> That means that there is bound to be a number of changes in a short
>> time...
>>
>> /Bengt
>>
>> Bengt Thuree   bengt at thuree.com
>>
>>
>
> Bruno Sun. 2010-5-30
>
>
>
>> It is. I only mentioned it because it exists, has all the support
>> processes needed for a new contributor and they will definitely need a
>> section on Shotwell for 10.10. Of course, it would be a lot better to do
>> generic documentation.
>
>
> I will definitely take a further look at contributing to the Ubuntu Manual
> project if I can get into things nicely. I've already perused the manual and
> handed it off to people to use. It's a great project!
>
> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Robert Ancell <
>> robert.ancell at canonical.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm a GNOME Developer and work in the Ubuntu Desktop team.
>>
>> The help should definitely be written in Mallard format and I can
>> confirm it is an order of magnitude easier that the old DocBook format!
>>
>> All you need is a recent version of Yelp (e.g. Ubuntu 9.10 or higher)
>> and a text editor.
>>
>> The Mallard ten minute guide will teach you all you need:
>> http://projectmallard.org/about/learn/tenminutes.html
>>
>> Here are some examples of Mallard help files:
>> http://git.gnome.org/browse/gcalctool/tree/help/C
>>
>> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~robert-ancell/simple-scan/trunk/files/head%3A/help/C/<http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Erobert-ancell/simple-scan/trunk/files/head%3A/help/C/>
>> http://git.gnome.org/browse/gbrainy/tree/help/C
>>
>> Feel free to ask me any questions, you can also find me on
>> #ubuntu-desktop on freenode as robert-ancell.
>>
>> --Robert
>>
>
> Hey Robert, thanks for chiming in! It looks like Mallard will be the way to
> go. I appreciate the links to the guides and information. I'm sure I'll be
> stopping by ubuntu-desktop one of these days.
>
> Since it's been determined Mallard is the way to go I'll try and toy around
> with it over the next few days and see where I end up. I'm familiar with
> basic html so hopefully this won't be too hard to figure out.
>