[Shotwell] Contributing to the Wiki

[Jim Nelson]

I have nothing to add to Bruno's sound advice other than to make sure you
link to this new page from the main Shotwell page at
http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/Shotwell (under "More Information").

Thanks!

-- Jim

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Bruno Girin <brunogirin at gmail.com> wrote:

> David,
>
> That's a great idea! Editing the wiki is very easy: go to the URL of the
> page you want to create, which should not exist yet, such as:
> http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/HowToBuildInUbuntuFromSource
>
> The wiki will automatically ask you if you want to create a new page.
> Create it and populate it. I suggest you use the Debian one as a
> template (for this, go to the Debian page, click "Edit this page" at the
> bottom to see the source).
>
> Formatting a wiki article is also very easy, you will notice that when
> you edit a page, there is a link to a page that describes wiki
> formatting just below the text area.
>
> As for the fact that Lucid will eventually be out of date, it will
> always be easier to edit an existing page to add instructions for
> Maverick, Natty, etc than start from scratch so I'd say go for it.
>
> Bruno
>
> On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 20:59 -0500, David Velazquez wrote:
> > As I may have mentioned I'm currently working on a guide to compile the
> > latest stable build of Shotwell from source in Ubuntu Lucid complete with
> > screen shots, my own screw ups, and as many detailed instructions as I
> can
> > muster. I was first wondering if there would be an interest in this by
> > either the developers or anyone else. Secondly, I was curious how one
> would
> > be able to create new pages on the Shotwell wiki similar to this one:
> > http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/HowToBuildInDebianFromSource (I already have
> an
> > account). I could very well write it in OpenOffice or the like, but it
> would
> > be far easier to write and edit in the wiki itself given that I plan on
> > embedding images to help people along and other things that would be best
> > accomplished using the wiki-markup.
> >
> > I already have the images I plan to use and am currently working through
> the
> > process one more time since I ran into some issues myself the first time.
> > The only potential drawbacks I can see for this is that Lucid will,
> > eventually, be out of date and these instructions potentially rendered
> > useless because of it. Thoughts?
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