Re: Build/release query (was Communication)

[Pat Costello <Patrick Costello Sun COM>]

So, does everyone make a public announcement every time you do a putback, just 
in case there is a knock-on effect on some other item in the same module? 
Clearly, not. Therefore, the incident with the user guide putback was not a 
communication issue, rather a generic process issue. 

Pat

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> On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 09:22, Eugene O'Connor wrote:
> > 
> > > changes were committed to the Users guide module that
> > > prevented me from releasing it with some newly written documentation. 
> > 
> > Do you mean that changes to the gnome2-user-guide location in the 
> > gnome-user-docs module prevented you from releasing other documents 
> > in the gnome-user-docs module?
> > 
> > If so, could you explain how this stopped you releasing so that 
> > I can avoid doing this again? Does the entire gnome-user-docs 
> > module have to be built and released at the same time? 
> > 
> > I understand how the changes I committed at that time broke the 
> > User Guide, but I don't understand the connection with other 
> > documents in the gnome-user-docs module. 
> > 
> 
> The gnome-user-docs module contains several other docs besides the users
> guide (which I'm sure you're aware of). When that module is build it
> uses build files that incorporate all of the docs. For the GNOME2
> release the only docs in the module that were being built was the
> gnome2-user-guide written by Sun. Shortly after that the
> introduction-to-gnome document was updated and I was adding it to the
> build to do a release. Sun had proposed some changes to Scrollkeeper to
> make the list of categories a bit more sane, but somehow this hadn't
> resulted in a new release of scrollkeeper that could use the changes.
> before I was trying to do the release. The gnome2-user-guide OMF files
> were updated to use the new changes before the new scrollkeeper release
> which prevented me from releasing a new gnome-user-docs that had the
> updated introduction-to-gnome document. It was simply a matter of the
> timing of the changes, not that the changes themselves were incorrect.
> 
> Chris
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