Re: [toolbox] BibDesk participation

[Michael M. <mic...@gm...>]

On 6/23/05, Maxwell, Adam R <ada...@pn...> wrote:
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> On Jun 22, 2005, at 15:04, Maarten Sneep wrote:
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> >> Let me know what else is involved, and thanks for the work
> >> organizing this.
> >>
> >
> > At the moment: not much: I lack the time right now. I'll add new
> > articles as I receive them, and the mailing list will go forward.
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> Maybe Mike's research on Apple Help writing would be useful for an
> article :).

Good idea - we could share what we've learned so far, and considering that=
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the tools we ended up with are similar to tex and at least
open-source, it might make sense to share them with the community.

For reference, I started out here:
http://michael-mccracken.net/blog/blosxom.pl/computers/mac/programming/sing=
leSourceDocs.html
and made a bunch of posts to bibdesk-dev with further info.

If you like, I could turn those various posts into a single article
aimed at the toolbox's audience.
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> > I'll probably add some of my own scripts to the file download
> > section or at least to the CVS repository. Private advice on how to
> > maintain a sourceforge project is appreciated.
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> Or perhaps public advice on this?  Mike and J=E9r=F4me have been
> maintaining sourceforge projects longer than the rest of us, and I'd
> be interested in any tips as well.

Hmm, tips - well, for starters I'd suggest making sure you disable
anything you aren't planning to use - the screenshots archive is
particularly useless, IMHO, and if you have lists you may not also
want forums.

Another tip is that anything you can do to get automatic notifications
instead of having to revisit the website is worth your time to set up.
Make sure you have new tracker items send email somewhere you check -
BibDesk has -bugs and -rfes mailing lists that catch all new items,
even if they're not assigned to someone. If you don't do this and
nobody assigns anyone to a new item, that item falls through the
cracks until the next time you go browse the tracker's web
interface...

Also, I have ssh-keys set up for my sourceforge account, and thank
god. I would surely hate life if I had to type in my password every
time I used CVS for BibDesk...
The info about that is here:=20
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=3D3088&group_id=3D1

I'll try to think of others, but that's all I've got for now.

-mike

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Michael McCracken
UCSD CSE PhD Student
San Diego Supercomputer Center
http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/~mmccrack/