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[Josh Holland <jrh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 03:40:15PM -0000, Mark Preston wrote:
> I tried to follow the instructions on the page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com
> /ubuntu-manual/authors -- I got as far as the public key, and I got
> slowed there as the page doesn't say "copy & paste" the entire private
> key. Not a biggy, I had to try 4 or 5 pasts before I got it correct.

I understand we are moving away from the wiki.ubuntu.com over to our own
website on http://ubuntu-manual.org/.

> Next, I tried to d/l the manual, viz.:
> 
> mark@Lexington-19-Karmic:~/Projects$ bzr branch lp:ubuntu-manual
> You have not informed bzr of your Launchpad ID, and you must do this to
> write to Launchpad or access private data.  See "bzr help launchpad-
> login".
> [#########\          ] 138551KB   345KB/s | Fetching revisions:Inserting
> stream
> 
> I had run: bzr whoami & saw mark@Lexington-19-Karmic:~/Projects$ bzr
> whoami
> Mark <emarkpreston@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> so I thought I was good-to-go. Yet, the d/o of the manual is continuing
> as I type this (about 13.8 meg), but just above the d/l line I read:
> 
> mark@Lexington-19-Karmic:~/Projects$ bzr branch lp:ubuntu-manual
> You have not informed bzr of your Launchpad ID, and you must do this to
> write to Launchpad or access private data.  See "bzr help launchpad-
> login".
> 
> I tried to enter the name of: Mark, but bzr won't take that.

You'll want to enter your Launchpad ID here, so from looking elsewhere,
you'd need
$ bzr launchpad-login emarkpreston

> 
> Meanwhile the whole reason for this is: I sent the manual (beta) to a
> friend who wants to use Ubuntu. In reading the manual, he caught a
> spelling error:
> 
> Ubuntu 10.04 manual
> Revision 729
> "Page 27 (29 of 172)"
> Line 18: "When the calender is expanded ..." should be "When the
> calendar is ..."
> 
> so, please have someone proof the manual for spelling errors, too.

Unfortunately, we've gone past the string freeze for the 10.04 release,
so this won't be fixed in the first edition. If you file a bug here [0],
we'll get it fixed in the second edition if there is one, or the 10.10
version in any case.

Thanks a lot for your interest,

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