Re: [toolbox] BibDesk participation

[Maarten S. <maa...@xs...>]

On 23 Jun 2005, at 21:48, Michael McCracken wrote:

> On 6/23/05, Maxwell, Adam R <ada...@pn...> wrote:
>
>> 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 =20
> considering that
> 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/=20
> programming/singleSourceDocs.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.

That would be really nice. There are some templates available from =20
the articles page, if you want those.

>>> 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.
>>
>> 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:
> 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.

Thanks for this, and thanks for the text on BibDesk. I'll add the =20
discription some time after the weekend.

Maarten=