From kde-core-devel  Fri Jul 18 06:01:02 2003
From: Ralf Nolden <nolden () kde ! org>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 06:01:02 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: new KDE Development book
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Hi,

I'll now proceed in writing a new KDE development book. Mainly because the =
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KDE 2 development book sucks in certain kind of ways and through the=20
experience of participating on that book having to use DOC format and other=
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things, I'll start basically from scratch. Any help in proof-reading and=20
later in translation is very welcome. Example code is also nice to have :-)

As I haven't taken care of any publisher who'll do hard prints I guess that=
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come over time. The License for the book will be the GNU Free Documentation=
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License, which is because my manuals in KDevelop were GPL licensed and I ha=
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to buy myself a hard copy of my own work. Which sucked as well :-)

So, target is: FDL-licensed book that can be published on developer.kde.org=
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covering:

=2D C++=20
=2D Qt 3.2
=2D KDE 3.2
=2D KDE/Qt development tools, debugging
=2D KDE/Qt translation tools
=2D writing DocBook manuals

Specifically the book will cover KDevelop 3 as well as one big chunk of it =
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we can reuse the book for the KDevelop manuals and ship it with KDevelop=20
directly (even though the debian package for the book will end up in=20
non-free, see recent discussions about the FDL).

=46or the book to come forward, I'll use docbook myself and I would like to=
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re-use Lauri's docbook manuals on how to write good documentation. The=20
question is: where to put the docbook files so we have a buildsystem around=
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it and can have anyone participate in writing it so we can use CVS plus whe=
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certain chapters are finished translators can translate it, and how we get =
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published directly during the process of writing it on developer.kde.org so=
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anyone can review the book and send in patches ?

If you have any ideas, let me know.

Thanks,

Ralf

=2D-=20
We're not a company, we just produce better code at less costs.
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Ralf Nolden
nolden@kde.org

The K Desktop Environment       The KDevelop Project
http://www.kde.org              http://www.kdevelop.org

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