Comment 21 for bug 437446

Hi,

I'd be delighted to help, however I'm not very familiar with wiki page
writing so would need a "How To" in order to convert drs305's excellent
community document into Docbook format. I also am in regular contact with
drs305 for matters grub.

I guess the 1st place would be what programme you recommend that I use. HTML
Tidy is one suggestion I've pulled off the web. I already code to XHTML,
Strict, so am familiar with the closing of tags etc.

Assuming I can get the Grub one into the correct format, I'd then be happy
to convert any others over that are languishing on the "To Do" list.

Regards,

Phill.

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Connor Imes <email address hidden> wrote:

> Phil,
>
> Yes, I am the same person. I've worked closely with drs305 in the past
> and know that he has done a great deal of work on documenting Grub2 (he
> basically wrote the wiki page himself [1]). Official documentation [2]
> is written using Docbook XML - what you see on the web is an HTML export
> from the docbook source, and is not a wiki. The patch that drs305
> posted is not in Docbook format and would need to be converted if it
> were to be applied. The changes I committed to the Lucid branch explain
> how to use a graphical program for modifying the settings in question,
> which is preferable (where possible) to having a user edit configuration
> files.
>
> As I mentioned in my previous comment, if you would like to help us
> provide a minimal patch for Karmic, we can do the SRU process (pending
> approval from the SRU team). We value any contributions from the
> community, and are happy to review patches that users submit.
>
> Please understand that we have limited resources and are volunteering
> our time here just like you are. We do our best to stay on top of the
> workload.
>
> I hope that helps address your concerns and clarify things for you.
> Cheers.
>
> [1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
> [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/SystemDocumentation
>
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> Need documentation on Grub2
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/437446
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> Status in “ubuntu-docs” package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed
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> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: ubuntu-docs
>
> As far as I can tell, we don't have any documentation on Grub2 yet in the
> Karmic development branch. With the Karmic release, Grub2 will be the
> default on new installations (upgrades will keep the existing Grub).
>
> Based on string search for "grub" (ignoring case), affected files include
> but may not be limited to:
> switching/C/dualboot.xml
> serverguide/C/security.xml
> serverguide/C/installation.xml
>
> See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2
> and
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
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