lsdrocha: Your evangelism is for sure worthy of apprentice certification. Good work.my week
I've been largely away from the computer this week. Spent most of the week down in Carlsbad, N.M., where I toured the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. In simple terms, it's a nuclear waste dump, the first of its kind in the world. The folks who work on it despair of the word "dump", preferring "deep geologic repository" or words to that effect, and they have some right to their linguistic claim. "Dump" implies big bulldozers and piles of dirt - this thing is highly engineered and meticulously clean and carefully done, so maybe "dump" isn't quite right.GNOME doc stuff
It's a mine 2,150 feet deep, with the waste - plutonium-contaminated stuff from nuclear weapons manufacture - entombed in football field-sized rooms carved out of the salt beds. Over time, the salt "creeps" in and encloses the waste. It's been open and accepting waste since March 1999 after more than two decades of planning and development. I've written about it off and on for years, but haven't much lately, and haven't been underground to see it since they started dumping, err, I mean depositing stuff in it for real. It was a good trip.
There are a couple of GNOME docs projects I need to get organized and off the ground that have been lingering without momentum but need to get done.Gee, that's more than "a couple", isn't it?
- The Web. We need to set up a system to get our docs displayed on the web. Lampadas may take care of this for us, but we may need something different/sooner.
- Indexing. We've got index tags in a lot of our docs. I've gotta figure out how to get generated indexing going.
- Translations. We really need a plan for what to do once we get all the docs translations Sun is planning. For some packages, they'll add a huge amount of bloat. Do we make locale-specific packages?
- Docs build. There's been a lot of discussion about a better docs build system, and Malcolm's got some plans underway. I must poke and prod.
I need a bike ride.