Re: [MiNT] 1.17 Release - Call for documentation updates !

[Paul Wratt <paul.wratt@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 10:47 +0200, Miro Kropacek wrote:
>> > I'll be releasing tomorrow night (BST) around 10pm, so I'll be looking
>> > at how Frank built the 1.16.x releases and create a similar tarball.
>> Huh? Wouldn't be better to provide RC for all parts (kernel, xaaes,
>> docs, ...) let it test for a week, gain feedback and THEN make a
>> release? This is way too unusual. What do you do if nobody will update
>> that documentation? Release anyway?
>
> If no-one does the documentation - then yes. It's hardly changed since
> 1.16 apart from XaAES.
>
What about the programming documentation, the new functions or changes
in the existing function handling

> But since people want RC's I'll step back a bit.
>
> I've updated the builds with all the current documentation in the CVS,
> and made the tarball more like the 1.16 BETA.
>
> Let's see what happens.
>
Thanks it took me at least half an hour to set up mint, and I have a
ton of reference folders to make this easy

> Alan.
>

Docs especially take time, more so when the people needed to update
those docs and procedure are already busy doing the actual programming

But things are getting there

Thanks a lot for the extra effort, peeps (including those simply testing)

Paul