Minutes for the GDP Release Committee meeting Feb 25, 2001

[Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc cu-portland edu>]

Minutes for the GDP Release Committee meeting Feb 25, 2001
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Present:
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Dan Mueth         (chair)
Gregory Leblanc   (minutes)
Telsa Gwynne
Kevin Breit
Laszlo Kovacs
John Fleck
Alexander Kirillov
Chris Lyttle (arrived 1:54)

Absent:
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Kenny Graunke
Ali Abdin


Regrets:
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Decisions:
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- Nautilus will not have the ability to fall back on the
  non-scrollkeeper sidebar.  Scrollkeeper is now required for
  Nautilus.

Work Done:
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- DONE: Dan Mueth -- HACKING files created in gnome-user-docs and
  gnome-devel-doc.  

- DONE: Alexander Kirillov -- created a list of documentation to be
  moved into the gnome-user-docs module, and send it to Gregory
  Leblanc <gleblanc cu-portland edu>
- DONE: Telsa Gwynne -- created a gnome-user-docs product in
  bugzilla.

- DONE: John Fleck and Dan Mueth -- tested l10n and i18n in
  gnome-db2html2.  It doesn't work, but a detailed bug report has been
  filed, and "it should be easy to fix".

- DONE: Dan Mueth, John Fleck, Mike Fleming-- bugs #4302, #5945, and
  #6761 are fixed and verified.

- DONE: Laszlo Kovacs -- Enabled scrollkeeper in the default builds of
  Nautilus, and in the hourly builds.

- DONE: Kevin Breit -- Divided docs into groups so that QA volunteers
  can sign up.
  http://battery841.myip.org/school/gnome-1.4-category.txt/ps

- DONE: Laszlo Kovacs -- locale fallback in scrollkeeper has been
  fixed.


Work in Progress/To Be Done: 
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- TODO: Dan Mueth -- Draft note to the hackers informing them that in
  order to build gnome packages with have OMF from source and have the
  OMF data installed properly, scrollkeeper-preinstall must be
  available.  This means that you need to have Scrollkeeper installed
  before building packages for distribution.

- TODO: Dan Mueth Kenny Graunke -- create build system in
  gnome-user-docs and gnome-devel-docs.  Once build system is in place
  inform gnome-hackers about the new modules and refer them to the
  HACKING files for further information.

- TODO: Gregory Leblanc -- move documentation into the new
  gnome-user-docs module, after clarifying the correct procedure for
  moving docs in CVS with Martin Baulig, or another vetran hacker.

- TODO: Gregory Leblanc -- find script that puts the FAQ (and possibly
  other gnome-user-docs documents) onto the website, and find the
  maintainer.  Have the script changed to look to gnome-user-docs
  instead of gnome-docu.

- TODO: Telsa Gwynne -- add components and version numbers to the
  gnome-user-docs module in bugzilla.

- TODO: Gregory Leblanc -- gather a list of the packages included in
  the GNOME 1.4 core and extra-apps distributions which need GDP
  coordinators.  Mail list of packages to gnome-doc-list for
  volunteers.

- IN PROGRESS: Dan Mueth -- Emailed Jacob Berkman about making
  nautilus the default help browser in gnome-libs.

- IN PROGRESS: John Fleck -- check on support for using multiple fonts
  in the Nautilus Help Sidebar.

- TODO: John Fleck, Laszlo Kovacs, Dan Mueth -- work out l10n issues.

- IN PROGRESS: Telsa Gwynne-- create a "documentation" component for any
  products in bugzilla which don't already have one.  Kevin Breit to
  be the default contact on these products.  Telsa will also try to
  find and kill the products which are using some component other than
  "documentation".

- IN PROGRESS: Kevin Breit -- develop quality assurance tests, and
  document this procedure so that it can be applied for GNOME
  1.4. See: 
  http://battery841.myip.org/school/checklist.txt
  http://www.gnome.org/~mjs/gnome-test-plans/ and
  gnome-test-plans in CVS for details.

- TODO: John Fleck -- determine status of glossary.[xml sgml] so that
  it can be translated.

- IN PROGRESS: Telsa Gwynne -- talk to the i18n teams about making
  translating documentation easier.

- TODO: Dan Mueth -- Mail gnome-hackers to inform them that all gnome
  tarballs that include GDP docs need to include a COPYING-DOCS file
  which contains the GNU Free Documentation License in plain text
  format.  It should be installed along side the COPYING file, which
  should contain the license for the package (GPL/LGPL)

- TODO: Chris Lyttle -- Work on GNOME Users Guide.  Add a "New in
  GNOME 1.4" section near the beginning of the Guide.  See about the
  feasibility of getting the Users Guide included with Beta 3

- TODO: Kevin Breit -- Polish the existing dia documentation and have
  it included (and linked to the help menu) in the next release.

- TODO: Dan Mueth -- Assist John Fleck in verifing some
  Nautilus/gnome-db2html2 bugs.  

Agenda Items Left For Next Meeting:
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0) Discuss improving meetings
1) Review which packages need maintainers
2) QA review

Agenda:
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0) Review TODO's from last meeting
1) Discuss GNOME User Guide
2) Discuss whether Dia doc is ready for inclusion
3) Discuss improving meetings
4) Review which packages need maintainers
5) QA review
6) Nautilus bug verification