[Kmymoney-devel] doc check - author lists and man page question - last chance

[Thomas Baumgart]

Hi all,

on Sunday 25 July 2010 21:16:52 Jack wrote:


> I just checked in a lot of changes regarding developers and credits.
> It's close, but I think there is a bit more tuning to do.
> 
> On 2010.07.25 10:47, Alvaro Soliverez wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Jack <ostroffjh at sbcglobal.net>
> >
> > wrote:
> >> On 2010.07.22 02:01, Thomas Baumgart wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > They blurred, because of the very big changes in some areas due to
> > the port to Qt4. Basically, the "go-to" guys changed in some areas.
> >
> >>> Maybe, we can add "Qt4 port" as a subject to Alvaro, Cristian,
> >>> Fernando and myself (did I miss someone?).
> >>
> >> I'm tempted to add a line to "active developers" saying lots of
> >> folks contributed to the migration to KDE4/QT4 rather than adding it
> >> to individuals.
> 
> What I did was add a separate line about migration to KDE4/Qt4 on the
> active developers page.  It's also a specific item for Bernd on the
> special thanks page.
> 
> >> I also need to know if I should change the list of "authors" on the
> >> man page to match the active developer list.
> >
> > Yes, please.
> 
> The authors in index.docbook are supposed to be authors of the
> documentation.  I just left this list alone and added myself.  In
> theory, the developers could be added here as <othercontrib> but I have
> not done this.
> 
> The authors on the man page now list Michael Edwardes, all those listed
> as active developers, Felix Rodriguez, and Kevin Tambascio.  The last
> two are just two out of four developers of previous versions.  Should I
> leave this as is, remove these two, or add the other two (Ace Jones and
> John C)?
> 
> NOTE:  I copy/pasted Christian's name into the man-kmymoney.1.docbook
> file, but the accent on the final "t" is not getting into the man page
> correctly.  If anyone knows how to properly encode this or what entity
> to use in the docbook file, please let me know.

Please note that Cristian is spelled without an 'h'.
> 
> The authors listed in the Help/About dialog doesn't quite match any of
> the above lists.  It includes most of the active developers (omits
> Robert Wadley [who is on the "thanks to" tab] and myself) and omits
> Kevin Tambascio [also on the "thanks to" tab] of the previous
> developers.  Three of the names on the "Thanks to" tab are not listed
> in credits.docbook.  (Javier Campos Morales, Laurent Montel, and
> Wolfgang Rohdewald)Also, at least one of the email addresses doesn't
> match - although I don't know how to tell which would be preferred.
> 
> The author of "Making the Most of ..." (chapter 3) is listed as Joe
> (joe1011010).  Can someone confirm that this is really how he likes to
> be listed?

Yes.

> One other issue - on the help/about dialog - the sourceforge site is
> still listed instead of techbase.

We could use http://www.kmymoney.org/ as the web-site. Currently it simply 
redirects to the SF page, but in the future we can change that at will.

-- 

Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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