Re: [Firebird-docs] Quick Start Guide 1.5

[Paul V. <pa...@vi...>]

Hi Helen,

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

Thanks! :-)


>> 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.

That's correct, I updated them only a few hours ago, in these four
locations: homepage sidebar, downloads menu, page_userdoc (added) and
manual subproject homepage. I think these are the only locations.

> I'm trying to do a makeover of all this stuff and coordinate the
> existing, neglected Doc Index with the documentation project. (...)
> Anyway, you and I need to get our heads together on this.

And hopefully a couple more people... anyway, the documentation pages
really need a big overhaul.

> 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.

Fwiw, the PDFs (and the HTML) from the manual subproject aren't in the
CVS tree, because they can easily be re-rendered from the DocBook
sources (which are in CVS) should the need arise.

I wonder - are we such a big project? The Firebird home tree
(/home/groups/f/fi/firebird) currently uses around 215 M disk
space. That includes 145 M in the download subdir, of which 115 M for
the 1.5.1. prerelease. Officially, all group homedirs have a 100 M
soft quotum.

I don't know how much CVS space we use. But since it's practically all
source code, what else can we do?


Greetings,
Paul Vinkenoog