[Alexandria-list] More docs and Update

[Cathal Mc Ginley]

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On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:05:48 -0500
"Joseph Method" <tristil at gmail.com> wrote:

> Happy belated New Year to everyone (Chinese New Year is still coming
> up!).
> 
> I created a new tutorial / application example, kind of experimental.
> I hope it helps:
> 
> http://blog.alexandria-projects.org/2008/1/16/setup-for-alexandria-development-iii
> 
Aha! I was wondering what all the commits to trunk/readinglist were!
This is a neat idea: an experimental user interface combined with a
coding example.

> In code-land, I've been working in
> http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/svn/branches/0.6.2_method_refactoring/
> 
> making lots of little refactorings. I like the changes I've made and
> would like to keep them. The only problem is that somewhere along the
> way Alexandria got completely broken :), refusing to display any
> books. 
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> I'll probably have to back off of these changes and reimplement
> them in little pieces, but I've sunk so much time into this that
> I'd find it a little depressing.
> 
It shouldn't be too bad, we can just go back to the time of the
branching with svn and apply one relevant revision change at a time,
testing as we go. Hmm, thinks! Perhaps not trivial, but not too arduous.

> Anyone else have news, resolutions to implement?

Nothing really new from me on Alexandria I'm afraid. Winter can really
sap my energy sometimes. My current plan is still to go through the
mailing-list archives and formulate requirements on the wiki. I'll need
to draw up a rough timetable for sketching new code prototypes too, so I
don't get stuck in "requirements and design" limbo.

Also, I must put together a list of things we can fix for 0.6.3,
perhaps some of the usability problems like the lack of feedback.  A
new release within two or three weeks would be nice.

Elsewhere in the project, the translators have kept busy. We
have a new Czech translator, Petr Vanek; a brand new Galician
translation from Adrián Chaves Fernández; and CHIKAMA Masaki has just
added the screenshots to his Japanese translation of the Alexandria
manual. Thanks guys!

(Hmm, it *is* all guys. We don't seem to have any women working on this
project. Oh well, I guess that's about typical, unfortunately.)

Anywho, cheers

   -   C.
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