Re: Which packages a CDD is composed of? [Was: Integrating cdd-dev with dh-make]
>>>>> On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 22:38:55 +0200 (CEST), Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> said:
Andreas> On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Free Ekanayaka wrote:
>> I thought I already had an account, even if it is a guest one
>> (free-guest). I was even able to commit some typos I fixed..
Andreas> Ahh, yes - I should have checked before writing this.
Andreas> (You can only have a guest account if you are not a
Andreas> developer - but you can apply for becoming an official
Andreas> developer ... ;-) ).
I'm in the process of doing that :) I have already some of my packages
in Debian and Guenter Geiger will be my advocate. I only need to
personally give my fingerprint to DD. I'll attend the workshop in
Valenica on the CDDs, which will be a good occasion for that.
>> Do I need to get a "ordinary" (as opposed to guest) account?
Andreas> No - just tell me if something does not work what you are
Andreas> expecting to work. We have just to fiddle around with
Andreas> the user permissions.
Uhm, I just can't find the path to open a ToDo tracker for the cdd
project, hints?
>> IMHO the key aspect of the common package is to provide a way
>> to choose on which users the customisation (menu, configs or
>> whatever) should take effect, and I this is need of all CDDs.
Andreas> This was exactly my impression when I started to build
Andreas> the common package.
>> Anyhow if we agree at least on the tasks/ structure, I can
>> modify/write the code as necessary. I think I can do it in the
>> next days.
Andreas> Note: It might be reasonable to send a hint to the
Andreas> debian-edu list if you might probably break something of
Andreas> their stuff. I did not notice anybody from debian-edu
Andreas> people here on this list and they might have comments if
Andreas> you point them to the start of this thread. My current
Andreas> scripts need no change to their stuff.
Yes, I'll definitively do it. I'm going to write a detailed proposal
on the modifications I'd do to the current cdd source package and send
it around.
>> I mean, the whole point is to generate the documentation from
>> the tasks/ hierarchy, isn't it? Then we provide a package with
>> this documentation (e.g. mycdd-doc) and everybody can do what
>> he wants with it..
Andreas> No doubt that this is possible. But my concern goes a
Andreas> little bit further. When I was asked on exhibition
Andreas> boothes about Debian-Med in special and CDD in general it
Andreas> was hard to point to very detailed documentation. If you
Andreas> only have a CDD-doc package it is fine for people who use
Andreas> Debian. But we need some detailed information on the web
Andreas> to convince outsiders. An overview over the integrated
Andreas> packages of a task might be a good start here.
Maybe there's some misunderstanding here. The <CDD>-doc package would
provide automatically generated and/or manually written documentation
in various formats. If we want to publish them on the web it would
just be a matter of installing the package on the machine running the
http server, with graphical tunings if needed (ideally the <CDD>-doc
package would provide also a format which holds only the contents and
the layout of the pages, not the graphical style and appearance).
But maybe what you have in mind is to install the scripts directly on
the server and let it generate the documentation parsing the <CDD>
source package, or even just the dependences of the binary task
packages.
ciao,
free
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