Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] category codes

[Laszlo K. - S. I. <las...@su...>]

> Welcome back (even if only briefly). :-)
> 
> Grrr. These would be the issues that they have not put into the bug
> tracker so that nobody else can see them or fix them? I recently
> received some patches from Glynn Foster that have been bouncing around
> Sun for a while, too, that I had never seen before. Please, please,
> please encourage whoever works with Scrollkeeper at Sun to use the bug
> tracker so that things get fixed at the source.

Ok, I'll try. Be cautious with those patches (check them before checking 
them in) from Glynn, some of them might be incorrect (I saw at least one 
that is). Nothing to do with Glynn really, he is just passing patches 
that he gets from the docs team. The problem is that in the last two 
years (while Sun pulled me from Gnome) nobody worked consistently 
with/on Scrollkeeper here so it kind of fell on the floor. This should 
improve now a bit.

> 
> I have reduced the number of outstanding bugs in the tracker by a large
> number recently (from around 50 to about a dozen), so they do get read
> and acted upon.
> 
> 
>>I noticed that install.c:add_doc_to_content_list() uses the titles 
>>content list entries to insert docs into them. I think this is exactly 
>>what the category codes (in the OMF files) have been designed for. The 
>>category codes should identify the sections where docs should be 
>>inserted, they should be the same for all the locales. Titles are 
>>different in every locale so they either don't work or impose extra 
>>translation effort on package maintainers (category entries in OMF files 
>>need translation).
>>
>>Or am I missing something?
> 
> 
> This sounds convincing. I'll have a look at it. I thought it should be
> working that way, too, so if it's not it may just be a bug.

I'll log a bug in the tracker. I don't have a proper patch yet, but when 
I will have one I will add it there.

Thanks for the help.

Laszlo