[Xapian-discuss] Writing a Quick Start Guide to Xapian

[Websuche :: Felix Antonius Wilhelm Ostmann]

I followed this subject, but currently i am not total sure what will
happen there ...

we want to write a ?small? book with the titel "a Quick Start Guido to
Xapian"?

Or only something for the xapian.org homepage?

How small will this guide be? For which native languages? For which
programming languages?

Can someone helping by rereading the output from other places? What do
you exactly expect from helping hands? My english is not best, so how
can i help?

Am 11.10.2011 05:56, schrieb Olly Betts:
> I should have sent this a few weeks ago really, but better late than
> never.  Hopefully people haven't got themselves booked up with other
> things since.
> 
> I'll be in the UK after the mentor summit, and it seems that weekends
> are probably going to fit best with most people, so given we need to
> make a decision, let's do this over two weekends (which also gives
> people time to mull things over between) and let's go for the weekends
> 29th-30th October and 5th-6th November.
> 
> I've cc:-ed those who expressed an interest originally, and Richard
> and James can probably make a sprint in the UK those dates, but others
> are welcome to join in too.
> 
> Justin's office in London is available those weekends, though ideally
> we want to be able to accommodate people nearby for the Friday and
> Saturday nights or else we're going to lose a lot of time to travelling.
> We have some money from GSoC mentoring payments we can use for this,
> though given London prices I'm wondering if a better solution would be
> to rent a holiday cottage somewhere not too far from London that has
> internet.  If anyone happens to know somewhere suitable, let me know.
> Anyway, venue undecided currently, but near or in London, and we have
> one definite decent option.
> 
> So if you want to take part and can definitely make those dates, please
> let me know (off list is probably best, and I can summarise).  If you
> are interested but not definite, feel free to respond too, but please
> make that clear.
> 
> Ideally we want the same people to be there for the whole of both
> weekends so we don't have to bring people up to speed, and make best
> use of the resources we have.  If you have other commitments that would
> prevent you attending the whole of both weekends, please warn us.
> 
> Feel free to ask questions, etc if you want to know more, but note you
> don't need a huge amount of knowledge about Xapian to be useful - we're
> aiming to write a guide useful for those new to Xapian, so it would be
> good to have involvement from some people who are fairly new to it.
> 
> If you want to know more about what we'll be doing, see:
> 
> http://www.flossmanuals.net/book-sprints/
> 
> I think we're probably going to just write in reStructured Text (.rst)
> rather than using the HTML-based flossmanuals tools, since we're
> standardising on this for the existing documentation, and it's nicely
> unobtrusive for writing in:
> 
> http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
> 
> Cheers,
>     Olly
> 
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