New home for KStars user manual

[Paul Brown]

On Monday, 31 March 2025 10:46:26 Central European Summer Time Jasem Mutlaq 
wrote:
> Good to go from my side!

Done:

* Mastodon: https://floss.social/@kde/114256740249657428

* Discuss: https://discuss.kde.org/t/kstars-debuts-a-new-documentation-site

* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/
urn:li:activity:7312431935522234368

* BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/kde.org/post/3lloa5aac7s2z

* Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1jo0smz/
kstars_debuts_a_new_documentation_site_a/

* FacebooK:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/KDECommunity/posts/8814109975355878/
https://www.facebook.com/kde/posts/
pfbid0gooUSgasAoBSQPwc5CYDT58DQwNnhdjnkiDMHcfEvDJMx5jM5ph5nxqMKAszFDZNl

* Threads: https://www.threads.net/@kdecommunity/post/DH3LWRcs6td

Cheers

Paul


> 
> --
> Best Regards,
> Jasem Mutlaq
> 
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 11:45 AM Paul Brown <paul.brown at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Sunday, 30 March 2025 17:10:00 Central European Summer Time Jasem
> > Mutlaq
> > 
> > wrote:
> > > We should be good to go with the English version ready. We don't have
> > > any
> > > up-to-date manual online now (the last one is quite old and does not
> > > contain a lot of updated sections) so I say we'd go ahead with the
> > > announcement. I don't have a mapping of the old docbook to the new RST.
> > > I
> > > think most docbooks were converted to RST while keeping the same file
> > 
> > name.
> > 
> > We can qualify the posts to social media with something like
> > 
> > "At the moment only English is available, but more languages coming soon."
> > 
> > Something like:
> > 
> > """
> > #KStars debuts a new documentation site!
> > 
> > A comprehensive resource that helps you to get to know and make the most
> > of
> > KDE's fantastic night sky observatory and astrophotography utility.
> > 
> > At the moment, only English is available. More languages coming soon.
> > 
> > https://kstars-docs.kde.org
> > """
> > 
> > What do you think?
> > 
> > Paul
> > 
> > > --
> > > Best Regards,
> > > Jasem Mutlaq
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM Luigi Toscano <luigi.toscano at tiscali.it>
> > > 
> > > wrote:
> > > > Shouldn't we first solve the problem with importing translations?
> > > > 
> > > > Please provide a mapping between the old _source_ docbooks and the new
> > 
> > RST
> > 
> > > > pages, so that I can help with reshuffling the po files.
> > > > 
> > > > Jasem Mutlaq ha scritto:
> > > > > Absolutely, no one knows about the new documentation website. We
> > > > > will
> > > > 
> > > > also
> > > > 
> > > > > need to update our README and KStars website to point to it.
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > --
> > > > > Best Regards,
> > > > > Jasem Mutlaq
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM Paul Brown <paul.brown at kde.org
> > > > > 
> > > > > <mailto:paul.brown at kde.org>> wrote:
> > > > >     On Friday, 28 March 2025 05:44:01 Central European Summer Time
> > 
> > Jasem
> > 
> > > > Mutlaq
> > > > 
> > > > >     wrote:
> > > > >     > Hello all,
> > > > >     > 
> > > > >     > Finally after a lot of work, we have a new home for KStars
> > > > 
> > > > documentation
> > > > 
> > > > >     > written using Sphinx: https://kstars-docs.kde.org/
> > > > >     > 
> > > > >     > The translations are not completely done. I hope the
> > 
> > translations
> > 
> > > > teams can
> > > > 
> > > > >     > continue to improve the translations from docbook to rst and
> > > > 
> > > > submit their
> > > > 
> > > > >     > changes here:
> > > > https://invent.kde.org/documentation/kstars-docs-kde-org
> > > > 
> > > > >     > We will be removing the docbook manual from KStars.
> > > > >     > 
> > > > >     > --
> > > > >     > Best Regards,
> > > > >     > Jasem Mutlaq
> > > > >     
> > > > >     Hi Jasem,
> > > > >     
> > > > >     Can we promote this on social media?
> > > > >     
> > > > >     Cheers
> > > > >     
> > > > >     Paul
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