Re: [Firebird-docs] Quick Start Guide 1.5

[Helen B. <he...@tp...>]

At 02:45 AM 7/09/2004 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Last week's posting about the updated Quick Start Guide resulted in
>exactly 0 comments, so I suppose it's acceptable. The latest version
>(with master font now 11 instead of 10 for easier reading, and titles
>blue instead of green to move away from the InterBase docstyle) is at
>
>   http://www.firebirdsql.org/pdfmanual/Firebird-1.5-QuickStart.pdf
>

Damn, Paul, I meant to post a complimentary comment about it and totally 
forgot.  Both the PDF and the HTML versions are *very impressive*.


>I'll also redo the other PDFs in the new style, and put up the 1.0
>QSG. This may take a little time as the PDFs still need some manual
>postprocessing after the build :-(
>
>Links to the QSG on our website have been updated.

I'll recheck these links since, up till yesterday at least, we still had 
docs links pointing to the old version at IBPhoenix.  As you know, I'm 
trying to do a makeover of all this stuff and coordinate the existing, 
neglected Doc Index with the documentation project.  It would have been 
further forward by now if SF hadn't been offline for a big chunk of the 
weekend.  I've been bogged down in Monday and Tuesday stuff since 
then.  :-(  Anyway, you and I need to get our heads together on this.

>Helen, if you're reading this: the release package builders need to be
>aware of the new QSG and its location. Should I announce it via the
>admin list, or via the devel list, or email them directly?

Announce it via the Admin list for now, so we can get some informed 
feedback from the package builders.  Once we've settled it, we can put up 
directions for the package builders regarding documentation.

In the past, certain persons argued strenuously against storing binary 
files on SF at all - hence why we currently don't have a SF repository for 
the release notes.  The SF Admin people have been yelling at us (project 
admins) regarding our gross overuse of space on the CVS server so, in the 
long term, making the CVS tree the repository for multiple versions of our 
PDFs isn't going to win us any friends.

These are Admin issues that need to be raised and shaken out for 
good-and-all.    There's a lot I don't know about our file resources on SF, 
as I'm discovering in the process of wending my way around the website and 
trying to document it for the new web team.  :-(

Helen