From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?Q?G=C3=A1bor_Boskovits?= Subject: Re: Trying to make texinfo patch Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2018 09:15:48 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59244) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gJwZh-00028l-3Y for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2018 03:19:01 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gJwWn-00037Q-NS for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2018 03:16:02 -0500 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Laura Lazzati Cc: Guix-devel , Ricardo Wurmus Hello Laura, Laura Lazzati ezt =C3=ADrta (id=C5=91pont: 201= 8. nov. 6., K, 2:44): > > >> I don't know if we currently have a top level Makefile target to build >> the manual only, but simply make-ing in the source tree rebuilds the >> manual. I believe that is the simplest >> way to test changes. > > I tried to explain what I did on IRC. In the end I just git pulled and go= t the new version of the guix.texi file. > Ran make again in the source tree - helped me to recall some useful Makef= ile concepts. And added just the few cindex again, they are not many, but t= o check that I learned texinfo. > Then, since in guix.info website I had the full html version, ran: > makeinfo --html --nosplit guix.texi and got a similar html file that look= ed similar to the original one, nut with the index entries updated. Ok. > And I don't know if I should write this in guix-devel, there is a bug lis= t - it's almost my time to go to bed, but I recall seing it - where I was = mentioning that in guix.info site the references to documentation have html= _node in their path and they return a 404 not found when clicking them. You can report that to the bugs list. > Tomorrow I will try to send the patch. > I have some questions to ask you: > 1) I got an Ourteachy reminder about recording my Application form. I gue= ss it was just a reminder, but please let me know if it you got it. >From here it looks fine. > 2) I was suggested to have at least for a my foreing distro and guix pack= age manager an aws account, in case something happens to my computer. I don= 't know if it is accepted by the community. I am confused, could you please rephrase this question? > 3) Is it OK if I write daily telling you what I will be doing/ did that d= ay, and what I am learning if the number of contributions don't count that = much? Maybe it is more useful that. Yes a daily report is fine, we found from earlier expericence that a report at least two times a week is really important in these types of projects. > > Regards! > Laura > > > Best regards, g_bor