Bryce,
Frankly, I think the SVG tutorials included with Inkscape are excellent - I haven't found a strong need for anything else, in terms of documentation. I find the "work-in-the-tutorial" paradigm in Inkscape to be very effective way of learning and quite unique - are there any other software products that do this? And thankfully these tutorials are all offline, meaning I can travel and still learn how to use Inkscape. If anything, I would like to contribute to improving/correcting these tutorials as a first contribution (already found a couple bugs/typos).
So how does one go about submitting patches to these tutorial SVG files? Is it best to edit the tutorial in Inkscape directly and then do a svn diff? I found that there are huge differences when I do this, even for a one-word change. And the resultant patch is not very review-friendly (lots of RDF stuff seem touched, etc). Is it better to just submit the entire SVG file instead of a diff patch? If so, how do reviewers tell what has changed?
By the way, would it maybe be better to save the tutorial files as Plain SVG (without metadata) to avoid such metadata-like changes?
After that, I would like to work on the code, though I'm still struggling to build Inkscape in OpenSUSE 10.2. Unfortunately I've had no end of problems in doing this thus far, though when I discover something out, I'll contribute to pages like http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingSuse
Regards, Jeff
On 3/20/07, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote:
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 11:01:08AM -0500, Jeff Schiller wrote:
I've become interested in Inkscape again and I'd like to figure out a good way to contribute. Here's a couple things I thought I'd throw out there:
Heya Jeff,
Currently one area we've been working on is setting up an Inkscape manual site at inkscape.org/manual/ that allows people to collaboratively edit the manual, but also be able to export it in docbook and other formats. The focus so far has been to build on Kevin Wixson's excellent work, and combine into it our official french Inkscape user manual by Pygmee and Yemanja.
The system is working fairly well, although there are lots and lots of rough edges I'm still working on. The manual itself is outlined and a few pages have been filled in, but it will need lots of additions before it can be considered ready for public use. It would be wonderful to have your help with this.
Longer range, as we gain experience with drupal, my hope is that we can expand its use into other areas of our website. So I'm also looking at other modules and webapps that integrate nicely with drupal.
Bryce