how to on working on the release notes

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

Prerequisites - an account on git.gnome.org, see Andrea Veri and myself for that.  It's not strictly required especially if you're a first time hacker.  But I can approve a git account if I deem it necessary.  Otherwise, you can send me or Andreas the patches and we can merge it.

First thing is to clone the release notes:

1) git clone ssh://user git gnome org/git/release-notes OR 

    git clone git://git.gnome.org/release-notes (if you have no account)

2) cd release-notes

3) git checkout -b gnome-3-10 origin/gnome-3-10

4) cd help/C (if you want to help out in english)

You'll see a number of files with the extensions with 'page'.  These are the files you want to edit.  You can preview the work with 'yelp' the GNOME help browser.  So you should start off with that first so you can gauge the progress.   For instance:

$ yelp index.page

Will preview the initial page of the release notes.

Next you want to see what's been done, so you should use the command 'git log' so that you can see who all have been doing what.

$ git log

Use gedit to edit each of the files and start working on the parts that are missing.  For instance, the development page needs a little work.

Once you have everything how you want it.  Save your work, and then type in:

$ git commit <file you worked on>

If you have an account you can then do:

$ git push 

and that will commit upstream.

If you don't have an account, you can create a patch.

git format-patch gnome-3-10^  (someone chekc this, Im not sure)

If you have any questions, please mail the list.