GDP GNOME 2 release team minutes

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

Minutes of the GDP GNOME 2 Release Team, Jan. 19, 02
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Present: 

  Eric Baudais
  Kevin Breit
  Pat Costello
  Trevor Curtis
  John Fleck
  Mikael Hallendal
  Alexander Kirillov
  Alex Larson
  Daniel Veillard

Actions:
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ACTION: John to put together an interim stylesheet for the beta that
        displays the entire document and that works.

ACTION: Eric to write a note explaining what can reasonably be done on
        the display stylesheets in time for release.

ACTION: Daniel to provide a script that will rebuild XML catalogs if
        not present.

ACTION: John to send out a note looking for a docs maintainer for
        gnome-games. 

Decisions and discussions:
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* Schedule and deadlines

  - For the Desktop Beta (Jan. 30), the primary goal is to have old
    sgml removed and replaced with xml, with Makefiles and OMF files
    updated. In some cases this will mean simply converting the old
    sgml to xml, but the build infrastructure will be in place so once
    documenters are able to build things we can finish updating the
    documentation between the Desktop Beta and RC1 (Feb. 18).

* DocBook xml->html converter

  - The primary issues are getting the navigation to work and the
    possibility of adding caching. Eric is now working the navigation,
    which is implemented in xsl stylesheets. Eric does not believe
    we'll have the full navigation stylesheets done in time for the
    beta, so John will do an interim version for the beta that simply
    displays the entire document. (That way people will be able to see
    something in Yelp.)

* Status of docs build and conversion to XML for the various packages

  - We're mostly nowhere here. gnome-utils has been converted,
    gnome-core is underway. Trevor said gnome-applets is under control
    and will be ready in time. No one has stepped forward to take
    charge of gnome-games. gnome-user-docs will be tricky because of
    the new Sun stuff - Sasha and John will coordinate with Pat on
    that. Nautilus will use Sun Users Guide section as its docs, so
    that'll also be tricky but should be under control.