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

[Cristian Oneţ]

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Thomas Baumgart <thb at net-bembel.de> wrote:
> 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'.

Fixed.

>> 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.

I think this would be the best approach.

Regards,
Cristian