[community] moving the tor browser manual to Lektor

silvia [hiro] hiro at torproject.org
Mon Nov 5 18:16:17 UTC 2018


Hi all,

I am going to give a patch to sys admin people and open the tickets
needed for this.

Talk soon,

-hiro

On 11/5/18 5:15 PM, Alison Macrina wrote:
> Hi all, just checking in about this. We talked in Mexico about Maggie
> working on this. I believe what needs to happen now is that the current
> manual needs to get replaced with this one, so what needs to happen to
> make that a reality?
>
> Alison Macrina
> Director
> Library Freedom Project
>
> silvia [hiro]:
>>
>> On 09/19/18 16:28, emma peel wrote:
>>> silvia [hiro]:
>>>> Hey everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I have been chatting with Colin about moving the tor browser manual to
>>>> lektor.
>>>>
>>>> This is completely possible, but I wanted to understand a few things.
>>>>
>>>> - Can we use the styleguide? Or do we have to keep the current design?
>>>>
>>>> I am asking this because we have been testing the styleguide a lot with
>>>> Lektor and it would be the easiest thing for me to create a framework in
>>>> lektor to which you can just port the content from the system you are
>>>> using to Markdown.
>>>>
>>>> This will also be the same structure than the support portal, so it will
>>>> be easier down the road, to port the manual to the support portal.
>>>>
>>>> How does it sound to you?
>>> Yes, I like that idea!
>>> Actually, I was pitching the move to lektor with the reasoning that we will
>>> be able to share work already done for styling in the support portal, and all
>>> the other things you are fixing with lektor (deb packages, l10n, etc)
>>>
>>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Here is the skeleton of the new tor browser manual:
>> https://gitweb.torproject.org/project/web/manual.git/
>>
>> It contains the structure, style and topic.
>>
>> Each topic has a folder in the contents folder under the root of the
>> project.
>> If you edit the contents.lr file inside each of the topic folders you
>> will be able to edit title, description and body for the topic.
>> Title and description are strings.
>> The body is Markdown and it is where the actual content for each topic goes.
>>
>> Please fell free to try this out on your local machines. There will be
>> things that will need to be changed, so feel free to collect bugs and
>> issues.
>>
>> Talk soon,
>> -hiro
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