Where and when

• Schedule Friday 26 March

  Start: 1400 UTC

  Break: 1700 UTC

  End: 2200 UTC

• Schedule Saturday 27 March

  Start: 0500 UTC

  Break: 0800 UTC

  Continue: 1400 UTC

• In #teachingopensource on irc.freenode.net (or WebUI at http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=teachingopensource.)

Resources

• Wiki pages:

  Textbook_Roadmap#Textbook_Roadmap

  Textbook Release 0.8

• Subversion

  http://teachingopensource.org/repos/textbook

• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_syntax_and_markup#Marking_Technical_Terms
• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Converting_wiki_to_DocBook_XML

Requirements

You may or must have the following to participate in this sprint.

• Linux system with latest Publican installed; Fedora works fine for this.
  • Building using Publican 1.6.0 which is available for Fedora 11, 12, and 13 Beta
• Plain text editor for editing XML as plain ASCII text
  • Emacs, Vim, Kate, Gedit, etc.
• Subversion (svn) installed to be able to do anonymous checkout of repository.
  • We may add committers as we go, but we'll likely use the patch method for most folks.
• Ability to make a patch.
  • Read the textbook chapter Fixing the Code if you have any questions here.

Process

1. Use mw-render to pull down all pages for XML.

   Pulling from http://theopensourceway.org/wiki/User:Quaid/Textbook/ due to mw-render not recognizing the API path for teachingopnesource.org wiki.

2. Use Publican to create a new empty book.
3. Rename/move XML content from rendered chapters in to named Publican chapters.
4. Tweak the chapter structures and the Publican XML files until it builds.
   • This is the raptor build that gives us a release for Monday in case all else fails.

   This is now a usable book by visually being similar to the wiki; inline retagging is important but not crucial for release.

   There may be other structures that need adjusting, such as admonitions and exercises; these may be crucial to a raptor build

5. Fix block tagging throughout all files
   • Improve tag set breaks, indenting, and whitespace to make editing easier
   • Don't seek perfection on blocking and indenting, trust Emacs nxml-mode to identify when tag containers are broken
   • Fix preformatted text, may require a trip back to the original wiki.
6. Fix inline tagging throughout all files
   • Examples: programlisting, emphasis, emphasis+strong
   • Fix blocking as proceeding when programlisting are fixed
7. Provide content IDs that are Publican friendly - chapters and sections.
   • Chapter title "Chapter Title" becomes <section id="ch-Chapter_Title-">
   • Section title "Section Title" becomes <section id="sn-Chapter_Title-Section_Title">
8. Make colophon
9. Tweak branding to get a TOS brand instead of default Publican.

Log and notes

This is the log being generated continuously by meetbot, so you can catch up on the back discussion and see what links, actions, etc. are written down:

http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teachingopensource/2010-03-26/teachingopensource.2010-03-26-14.06.log.txt

Other notes are kept in this section.