Updating Mercurial: The Definitive Guide

[Na'Tosha Bard]

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Augie Fackler <lists at durin42.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Na'Tosha Bard <natosha at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 20:21 +0200, Na'Tosha Bard wrote:
> >> > Hello,
> >> >
> >> > Sending this to the dev and user lists because I don't think anyone
> has
> >> > signed up for the hgbook mailing list, other than me ;-)
> >> >
> >> > As has been previously mentioned, we're ready to start updating the
> >> > Mercurial book.  The home repository is here:
> >> > https://bitbucket.org/natosha_bard/hgbook
> >> >
> >> > I'd prefer if the way we do this is by making forks and submitting
> pull
> >> > requests.  Pretty much everyone and their grandmother in the Mercurial
> >> > community already has a BitBucket account, so this should be painless.
> >>
> >> Is there a current howto on how to build and edit the book? Last time I
> >> looked, it was a shambles.
> >
> > No, but I believe Henrik (hstuart) is planning on fixing up the process
> of
> > building the book so that mortals can do it and seting up some server
> > somewhere to actually build it.  I'll talk to him again when he's back
> from
> > vacation (everything in Denmark shuts down late July / early August).
> >
> > Luckily the book content is just html, which anyone can edit.
>
> html or docbook? It'll be way easier to get docbook published in dead-tree
> form.
>

Actually you're right, it's DocBook, but that's not too hard to edit,
either.  Building, apparently, is a different story.


> I'll email you and my OReilly contact off-list to get you in touch
> with them about their tooling.
>

Thanks.


-- 
"Pain is temporary; quitting lasts forever."
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