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RE: [buckminster-dev] New to Buckminster [message #11447] Thu, 20 March 2008 22:40
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Originally posted by: hollings.cern.ch

Thomas,

Ok, so I'll begin by assuring the accuracy of all of the existing
documentation and coming up with a scheme of organization to make it as easy
as possible to navigate. I haven't made documentation for the eclipse help
system before, but if it's in plain HTML, then I'll do the initial work in
LaTeX, since I can immediately get that to do both HTML and PDF.

-Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: buckminster-dev-bounces@eclipse.org
[mailto:buckminster-dev-bounces@eclipse.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Hallgren
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 10:41 PM
To: Buckminster developer discussions
Subject: Re: [buckminster-dev] New to Buckminster

Hi Matt,
I think the most important things right now is the content itself and to get
it structured in a way
that makes it easy to navigate. IMO this is the difficult part. The actual
medium can be changed
once we have that.

Stefan Daume has written most of the content that we have on the wiki rigth
now. I think it would be
great if you could sync up on ideas on to move forward with this to make it
as efficient as possible.

My view is that you should use whatever tool you're most comfortable with.
Our ultimate goal is
actually not the wiki, it's getting the documentation into the Eclipse Help
system as part of the
features that we provide. The format for that will be html.


Regards,
Thomas Hallgren



Matt Hollingsworth wrote:
> Thomas (and others),
>
> Great! I'll get started properly as soon as I get back home to the States
> (I'm in Switzerland [at CERN] at the moment, and I'm leaving tomorrow).
> However, I can go ahead and ask some questions that I know I'll need to
> ask...
>
> First off, if I'm going to be doing documentation I had better first
inquire
> what format you prefer. I'm sure that the ultimate goal is to put things
on
> the wiki, but unless there are objections, I would probably prefer to
> produce whatever I'm producing first using another medium that one could
> test and proof before it's available on the wiki so that bad information
> isn't accidentally published. If I'm going to do things that way, I might
> as well make it useful in the long run as well, so that at some point, a
pdf
> or similar may be produced as a user's guide from it. I'm quite familiar
> with LaTeX, so I would be perfectly comfortable with that, but if no one
> else likes that, or if there is simply something better, I'm not married
to
> it by any means.
>
> Other than that, I'll just start with the getting started guide, and see
> what happens :).
>
> -Matt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: buckminster-dev-bounces@eclipse.org
> [mailto:buckminster-dev-bounces@eclipse.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Hallgren
> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 9:19 PM
> To: Buckminster developer discussions
> Subject: Re: [buckminster-dev] New to Buckminster
>
> Hi Matt,
> it sounds like we have a lot of common objectives and we would of course
> welcome your efforts. From
> the sound of it, your aim just right. Let me know what I can do do help
get
> you started.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Thomas Hallgren
>
>
> Matt Hollingsworth wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>
>> I would first like to mention that I'm interested in contributing
>> whatever I can find the time to contribute to this project; I had just
>> (a couple of weeks ago) begun a project that aimed to do what this
>> project has already done (for the most part) before I knew about
>> Buckminster. My least favorite thing about programming is trying to
>> resolve dependencies for complex projects, and as far as I'm concerned,
>> it's worth the effort to make it such that I can just run a command and
>> have that step done for me. I really like how you are approaching the
>> problem (although I can't get anything other than the sample to work
>> myself, but that's a problem in implementation [ which I would like to
>> help with ], not the idea behind it :) ).
>>
>>
>>
>> If it's ok if I help you guys out, the first thing I'm interested in
>> helping with, just to get acquainted with the project, is by doing
>> whatever I can to help smooth out some rough edges in the documentation.
>> This, I thought, might help me understand everything better, and it
>> would give you someone to test code coverage, as I'm going to try
>> everything out before I document it. I would then help as much as I can
>> with the debugging, which would also help me get acquainted with the
>> code (and, more importantly, the group). After that, I hope to be in a
>> position to contribute a bit more, if it is desired of me.
>>
>>
>>
>> If this is desirable, let me know, and I'll get to work; conversely, if
>> you wish for me to stay out of the way, that is fine as well :).
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> Matt Hollingsworth
>>
>> CERN - CMS (http://cms.cern.ch/)
>>
>>
>>
>
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