Re: New member - where to begin

Greg Smith wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
>
>> * What format? DocBook was mentioned.
>
> http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/docguide.html is the
> main intro to this area and the latest docs available. You'll need to
> check out the current release from CVS or git to generate patches; see
> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Development_information for guides to
> both of those.

Thanks Greg.

>
>> I prefer vim so what are your preferences for plugins-wise?
>> * Any Vim+DocBook or DocBook howtos/tutorials that you would recommend?
>
> For the most part simple changes are easy enough to make; just mimic the
> style of similar markup and confirm the docs still build after your
> change. I'd recommend using a version control system where you can
> track your diffs easier and commit in stages, particularly when getting
> started. That makes it easier to figure out what broke after a bad
> change and you can incrementally save successful changes until you get
> more comfortable.

Sounds good.

> If you have the full vim set (vim-enhanced on Fedora/RHEL, vim-full on
> Debian/Ubuntu), there is some assistance the editor can provide.
> There's a quick intro to helpful features to toggle at
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/documentation-guide/en_US/ch-vim.html and
> a much longer discussion of macros at
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7737 ; you really don't need
> anything beyond simple customizations in most cases though, simple tool
> assistance and cut/paste example copying is plenty if you're not
> authoring a serious docbook work from scratch.

I found both of these so will do a more in depth reading.

> One helpful thing you might do right off the bat is update section I.4
> "Documentation Authoring" with a section covering vim, to match the one
> already there for emacs, to include whatever you find works here.
> Getting documentation updates from patch authors is always hard to do,
> and some better information to help them accomplish that would be valuable.

This will be the first thing I work on.

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Rod
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