Minutes for the GDP Release Committee meeting March 4, 2001

[Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc cu-portland edu>]

Minutes for the GDP Release Committee meeting March 4, 2001
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Present:
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Dan Mueth         (chair)
Gregory Leblanc   (minutes)
Telsa Gwynne
John Fleck
Kenny Graunke

Absent:
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Laszlo Kovacs
Alexander Kirillov
Ali Abdin


Regrets:
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Kevin Breit


Decisions:
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Work Done:
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- DONE: Dan Mueth -- Emailed Jacob Berkman about making
  nautilus the default help browser in gnome-libs.

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

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

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

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

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.

- IN PROGRESS: Gregory Leblanc -- move documentation into the new
  gnome-user-docs module.  Greg needs a list that details which files
  should be moved, rather than just a "move everything".

- 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: 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.

- TODO: Dan Mueth -- Verify that nautilus is in gnome-libs as the
  default help handler, and that it actually works.

- 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 QA contact on these products.  The documentation
  coordinator will be the default bug owner for each module.  Telsa
  will also try to find and kill the products which are using some
  component other than "documentation".

- 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).  RMS is being
  a stickler about this, and saying that COPYING-DOCS is no longer
  acceptable.

- IN PROGRESS: 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.
  About 1/3 done right now, still hoping to get it ready to go into
  Beta 3.

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

- TODO: John Fleck -- (Re)send list of bugs for verification to Dan
  Mueth.

- TODO: John Fleck -- fix glossary.sgml to work in Nautilus, remove
  glossary.xml, update "Changes for 1.4" to reflect "self-identifying
  empty tags" weirdness.

Agenda Items Left For Next Meeting:
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Agenda:
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Review action from last meeting.
Telsa to talk about using Bugzilla for documentation