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[Benjamin Humphrey <humphreybc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hiya,

Good point. How about we separate the Security and CLI into two different
chapters, and make it 11 chapters long?

Joe/Josh - should we change the latex folders/files to the chapter names?

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Kelvin Gardiner <kelvin@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Benjamin,
>
> I have two comments on the recent reordering.
>
> I'm not sure if have security and terminal chapter is a good idea. I can't
> see where this proposed in the bug report (I may of missed it), so I didn't
> comment on it before the reordering was done. I have two reasons for this:
> the content is not related (suggesting separate chapters) and reading "The
> Command Line and Security" may lead a new(er) users to thinking the command
> line is required / related to security, and as the comments in the bug
> reported suggested new users have some (negative) preconception about the
> terminal.
>
> However, this is how the content is now arranged, I've emailed Ryan about
> combining our work.
>
>
> Also, currently the latex files are named by chapter (e.g. chapter3). I
> think these should be named by chapter name so that and future rearranging /
> additions are easier to manage.  Since latex sorts out the chapter / section
> numbers producing the final document is no more difficult.
>
>
> Regards,
> Kelvin
>
>
> Benjamin Humphrey wrote:
>
>> Okay I have tried my best to change around the blueprints, it's fairly
>> messy.
>>
>> Here's some specific stuff:
>>
>> *Deon Spengler* - your chapter has changed from "Hints and Tips" to
>> "Preferences and Hardware" - if you don't feel comfortable writing about
>> that, let us know.
>>
>> *Ryan Macnish* and *Kelvin Gardener* - you guys were writing the Terminal
>> chapter and the Security chapter - well, bad news. These two chapters are
>> now* COMBINED* in the new ToC - so you two have to *work together* on the
>> new "Command Line and Security" chapter.
>>
>> *B1ackcr0w* - you were previously working on Chapter 4 - now you're
>> working on Chapter 3. The content is pretty much the same, just the
>> numbering has changed.
>>
>> *Chapter 4* (default applications) and *Chapter 6* (Software and
>> Packaging) are *entirely new* - so they don't have an assignee! And, neither
>> does *Chapter 9* (Troubleshooting)!!!
>>
>> Any takers?
>>
>> --
>> Benjamin Humphrey
>>
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>> Dunedin, New Zealand
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