Re: [Fwd: Cleaning up CVS (Entropy Foundation Telethon!)]

[Eric Baudais <baudais kkpsi org>]

That is perfectly fine with me.  I just thought the documentation in
contrib/ was not being used.  If it is then there is no reason to remove
it.

I am wondering if the Sun doc team is using the document 

contrib/user-guide

is still being used by the Sun doc team.  That is a hefty 9.2M of space
and I think it is also in the gnome-user-docs module.  Do you guys have
any objections to deleting this directory?

Eric Baudais

On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 05:15, Pat Costello wrote:
> I agree with Irene. The /contrib area is performing a function that the 
> community wanted as well as Sun. In other words, to act as a holding 
> area for the latest versions of any piece of work that Sun does, pending 
> community acceptance. Every time we submit something to GNOME, we ask 
> the maintainer if this document is going to be accepted for general use. 
> We advise the Sun L10N team to pick stuff up from the /contrib area 
> because that is a lot more straightforward than picking up packages from 
> all over the CVS tree. The various branches of the CVS tree can be 
> confusing, and our current process guarantees that the Sun L10N team 
> pick up the latest versions. Admittedly, the L10N angle wasn't the 
> original purpose of the /contrib area, so we were capitalizing on an 
> existing process.
> 
> Now, having said that, I also agree that having copies of the same 
> documentation in the GNOME CVS tree seems like belt-and-braces 
> redundancy. We need to look at ways to reduce the redundancy. However, 
> the Sun L10N team is right now in the process of doing the translations 
> on the items that are in /contrib, so now would not be a good time to 
> change the process. If you allow us time until the Sun L10N team have 
> finished their work, then we will work out a new approach that we will 
> suggest to you all, bearing in mind the requirement to reduce 
> duplication. The Sun L10N should have finished their work on the ORMs 
> within the next few weeks, the GNOME User Guide will take a while longer.  
> 
> So, if it's ok with everybody we will address this issue when the 
> current wave of Sun translations is finished. Please hold off on 
> deleting the files in /contrib for now. Thanks for letting us know about 
> this problem.
> 
> Pat
> 
> >
> >
> >-------- Original Message --------
> >Subject: Re: Cleaning up CVS (Entropy Foundation Telethon!)
> >Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 10:16:35 +0100
> >From: Irene Ryan <irene ryan sun com>
> >To: Eric Baudais <baudais kkpsi org>
> >CC: gnome-doc-list gnome org
> >References: <20020908092205 GC1439 perkypants org>
> ><1031533395 3910 30 camel fishdrake>
> >
> >Hi Eric,
> >
> >Please do not delete the files that are in the gnome-docu/gdp/contrib
> >area for the moment. These are all up-to-date copies of the
> >documentation that is also stored in the application /help/C or doc/C
> >directories. The Sun doc team have been using this area to make
> >documentation available to the community for review prior to adding the
> >documentation to the application directories. It is also the area from
> >which the Sun localization team are picking up manuals for translation.
> >
> >Regards,
> >-Irene
> >
> >Eric Baudais wrote:
> >
> >>In celebration of Jeff's CVS house cleaning I would like to know if
> >>anyone objects to the following directories in gnome-docu/gdp/contrib be
> >>deleted:
> >>
> >>36K     ./charpick
> >>88K     ./gcalc
> >>92K     ./gcharmap
> >>532K    ./gfontsel
> >>124K    ./gnome-terminal
> >>60K     ./gnotes-applet
> >>64K     ./geyes
> >>52K     ./screenshooter
> >>56K     ./whereami
> >>124K    ./char-palette
> >>84K     ./command-line
> >>76K     ./eog
> >>108K    ./gedit
> >>120K    ./ggv
> >>108K    ./ghex
> >>60K     ./fish
> >>68K     ./gtik
> >>84K     ./gweather
> >>9.2M    ./user_guide
> >>92K     ./window-list
> >>72K     ./workspace-switcher
> >>120K    ./gnome-cd
> >>68K     ./clock
> >>80K     ./panel-menu
> >>92K     ./cdplayer_applet
> >>84K     ./gperfmeter
> >>80K     ./meat-grinder
> >>64K     ./mixer
> >>80K     ./gdict
> >>72K     ./gkb
> >>76K     ./grecord
> >>84K     ./gsearchtool
> >>72K     ./logview
> >>84K     ./system-details
> >>92K     ./gprocview
> >>72K     ./mailcheck
> >>104K    ./printman
> >>5.4M    ./user_guide20
> >>
> >>I believe all of these docs are either very old or already in another
> >>module, like gnome-user-docs for the user_guide and user_guide20.
> >>
> >>Eric Baudais
> >>
> >>On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 04:22, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hi all,
> >>>
> >>>This has to happen *NOW*, because canvas is running out of space. I'm still
> >>>working on /home and a few other sillies throughout the system, but it would
> >>>help if we cleaned out the cruft in CVS.
> >>>
> >>>Thus, I'm proud to announce...
> >>>
> >>>THE 2002 Entropy Foundation Telethon! HURRAH!
> >>>
> >>>  Anders has already donated libgnome.copy and libgnomeui.copy - what a guy!
> >>>  Sun have donated gconf-editor.old! Between them, that's a very generous
> >>>  TWENTY MEGABYTES back in the entropy pool... HOORAY!
> >>>
> >>>Put your bitbucket where your mouth is... DONATE NOW!
> >>>
> >>>Our operators are waiting for your call.
> >>>
> >>>Thanks,
> >>>
> >>>- Jeff
> >>>
> >>>--
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> >>>     rarely have joy. Kids have hyperkinetic nuclear joy in abundance.
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