Re: Contributing to the Debian website - easier than some think
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 03:23:55AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> [breaking the thread on purpose because this is totally unrelated]
>
> On Thu,17.Jul.08, 15:28:09, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 08:27:25PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > > You should contact debian-www about that. I think I recall a discussion
> > > about the children-distros page being outdated, but I guess manpower is
> > > missing again. I you would be willing to supply patches against the CVS
> > > source I'm sure they will be at least looked over. Or maybe that page
> >
> > Yeah, but you have to download the **WHOLE** website so you can submit
> > patches. :-( Makes you think twice about helping. Although, hopefully,
> > if you mention it on the debian-www mailing list someone will do the
> > necessary without being an #$%@!hole.
>
> I wonder where you got the info that you need to download the whole
> website, it should be corrected.
It was in a post on the debian-www mailing list in a thread talking
about whether two spaces after a full stop was acceptable English by
M.J Ray, I think.
> I am contributing translations into my native language and I only have
> the entire Romanian part (of course) and the entire English part (~63MB)
> which is needed as source and for test builds. I'm not a CVS expert,
> but you sure can checkout even less that this, e.g. only a specific
> directory which is of interest to you.
Ohh, OK, maybe I read or misunderstood the particular post alluded to.
> If you don't want to use CVS, just go to cvs.debian.org, fetch the .wml
> source you need and use diff to create a patch (or just send the entire
> .wml if this it to complicated).
I'll have a look, cheers.
--
Chris.
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