HCMC Blogs

WAS: All the site pages, including version info, release dates, and roadmap need to be updated ready for release.

All done Nov 9.

WAS: Source code libraries need to be updated, and their desc files checked for accuracy.

Completed Nov 10.

Do thorough testing of non-application-related aspects of the distro:

• Help files launch to correct topic.
• Tutorial launches and works.
• All ancillary files are installed.
• App will uninstall correctly.
• DocBook I/O works.

Test the installer on two or three machines, including Win2000.

WAS: Build a new installer for the IMT, including schemas, docbook and other XSLT, help files, tutorials etc.

Done November 10.

Worked all day to finish the Help docs:

• Added libxml and related Delphi code creators to acknowledgements.
• Wrote the rest of the Categories topic.
• Added lots of XML and TEI-related items to the glossary.

• Wrote these topics:

  • What can I do with my marked-up images?
  • XML file formats
  • The Web view output format
• Added new XSLT handlers for ordered lists and non-clickable images.

• Built and tested the file.

• Tweaked the CSS quite a bit.

• Fixed validation issues raised by the W3C validator.

This is basically ready for prime time now.

Spent all day working on the IMT Help:

• Did screenshots of all the windows and dialogs.
• Marked up the image window screenshot.
• Marked up the annotation dialog screenshot.
• Wrote the introduction.
• Updated the acknowledgements.
• Added some glossary entries for P5 etc.
• Began figuring out how to manage small inline images through Docbook.
• Built placeholder files for all the required topics, and added them into the root file.

• Integrated the Help calling system into the application, added a Help menu item, and assigned Help keywords to forms.

Right now there's this "Blog All" thing, which doesn't make much sense. There should be a basic HCMC blog that introduces us, links to the website and so on...

Posts which are designated as tasks can have priority, assignees, task status, and deadline. In the Task status drop-down, though, only "none" is available. We need a suitable set of values there.

Update:
We've set up three status levels: outstanding, completed and abandoned.

• Logged into the new B2Evolution blogging system set up by Greg.
• Created a blog for the Transformer project, and made several posts including two tasks.
• Everything seems to be working OK. At the moment, there are no task status values available in the Workflow properties; we need to figure out how to add these.