Status of Project Mallard

Hi,
I've been surfing a bit thorughout the Gnome wiki, and I've found some
interesting bits about something called Project Mallard (in
http://live.gnome.org/ProjectMallard). I would like to ask what is the
status of that project, and how it relates to Rarian, Foie Gras and
all the things that are mentioned in that page.

Indeed, I would be very interested in contributing, but I don't know
where to start, or who ask to.

Thanks in advance,
Alejandro

Re: Status of Project Mallard

I'll take this one for 20, please Bob.

On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 23:24 +0200, Alejandro Serrano wrote:
> Hi,
> I've been surfing a bit thorughout the Gnome wiki, and I've found some
> interesting bits about something called Project Mallard (in
> http://live.gnome.org/ProjectMallard). I would like to ask what is the
> status of that project, and how it relates to Rarian, Foie Gras and
> all the things that are mentioned in that page.

Project Mallard was originally the name for the new markup language.
However, as it's grown, it's become more of an umbrella term for all the
changes.  This includes the new markup (confusingly still called
"Mallard", at least by me), the new documentation editor (Foie Gras) and
the new meta-data stuff (Rarian).

As an umbrella, various parts are now progressing.  First, Rarian is now
part of GNOME 2.20 and it's cool new stuff will hopefully begin being
used in GNOME 2.22.

Second, Foie Gras.  This was worked on as part of the Summer Of Code by
2 students and is currently being integrated to form a first release
(hopefully).  The editor is exclusively for the Mallard Markup.

The markup itself has a (stylesheet) implementation inside
gnome-doc-utils I believe and the plan is to get an initial
implementation into GNOME 2.22, with work then beginning on converting
manuals across after that.

> 

Re: String additions to 'yelp.HEAD'

Hi!

>
>     + "No href attribute found on yelp:document\n"

The above string was changed by Don Scorgie <dscorgie@...>
(see also
http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/yelp/trunk/src/yelp-transform.c?r1=2931&r2=2930&pathrev=2931)

As you may know, we are in string freeze and I do not see any approval
for this change. The change only affects the '\n' (Newline) and the end
of the string but will anyway marked the string as untraslasted or fuzzy
in the po files.

You can also see that most languages have know 99% translated instead of
100% (the Spanish were fast as ever...) here:
http://l10n.gnome.org/module/yelp

For details about the string freeze, see
http://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/HandlingStringFreezes

Regards,
Johannes

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Re: String additions to 'yelp.HEAD'

Hi,

On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 11:06 +0200, Johannes Schmid wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> >
> >     + "No href attribute found on yelp:document\n"
> 
> The above string was changed by Don Scorgie <dscorgie@...>
> (see also
> http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/yelp/trunk/src/yelp-transform.c?r1=2931&r2=2930&pathrev=2931)
> 
> As you may know, we are in string freeze and I do not see any approval
> for this change. The change only affects the '\n' (Newline) and the end
> of the string but will anyway marked the string as untraslasted or fuzzy
> in the po files.

Sorry, my bad.  Consider myself LARTed.  I honestly didn't see that I'd
committed that.

I've seen a few new translations put into yelp since this was sent.  Do
you want me to revert the change or leave it?

Thanks
Don

Re: String additions to 'yelp.HEAD'

Hi!

If you want to have the changes in:
- Please explain why they are necessary
- Sent a mail to everybody mentioned at
http://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/HandlingStringFreezes

If the change makes sense I assume it shouldn't be a big problem to get
approval!

Regards,
Johannes

Don Scorgie schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 11:06 +0200, Johannes Schmid wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>>>     + "No href attribute found on yelp:document\n"
>> The above string was changed by Don Scorgie <dscorgie <at> svn.gnome.org>
>> (see also
>> http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/yelp/trunk/src/yelp-transform.c?r1=2931&r2=2930&pathrev=2931)
>>
>> As you may know, we are in string freeze and I do not see any approval
>> for this change. The change only affects the '\n' (Newline) and the end
>> of the string but will anyway marked the string as untraslasted or fuzzy
>> in the po files.
> 
> Sorry, my bad.  Consider myself LARTed.  I honestly didn't see that I'd

Rarian 0.6.0

Rarian is a documentations meta-data library.  It is used by yelp to
find all you're lovely help files.

This is the final version in the 0.5 / 0.6 series.

NOTE:  SVN access is currently broken due to a known bug [1].  Once this
is fixed, I shall commit the current changes and branch as appropriate.
Until then, I have put a patch from 0.5.8 to 0.6.0 at [2].  Thank you
and sorry for the inconvenience.

Now, on with the show.

Changes in this release:
 * Only export required symbols - based on patch from Daniel Macks
  - bug #12147 and #11969
 * Fix build on OSX and Solaris
  - bugs #12359 and #12043
 * Various crash fixes in .document files - Hans Petter Jansson
  - bugs #12226 and #12131
 * Make sk-config return decent results when OMF reading is enabled
  - bug #12212
 * Fix silly spelling errors
  - bug #12008
 * Fix copyright headers
 * Fallback languages now work correctly
  - GNOME bug #474556
 * Fix potential off-by-one issue in sk-preinstall - Ghee Teo
  -bug #12052

You can get this release by visiting 

Announcing Yelp 2.20.0

Hi,

Yelp is the program that appears from the mist when you click the Help
button in your favourite GNOME application.

You can get this from you're favourite ftp mirror:
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/yelp/2.20

Enjoy your trip into Help-land
Don

Changed in 2.20.0:
------------------

 * Jump to anchors in pages again
 * Respect theme settings on TOC again
 * Set automatic IDs on all divisions and respect chunk depth
 * Various minor fixes and crashers - Hans Petter Jansson and 
   	   	       	   	      Jens Granseuer
 * New tangoified icon on TOC
 * Fix broken figures in docbooks
 * Better colour theming and icon support
 * Updated translations:
   * ar (Djihed Afifi)
   * be <at> latin (Ihar Hrachyshka)
   * bg (Alexander Shopov)
   * ca (Gil Forcada)
   * da (Kenneth Nielsen)
   * de (Andre Klapper and Hendrik Richter)
   * el (Nikos Charonitakis)