An interesting Yelp behavior

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:25:27AM -0400, John J. McDonough wrote:
> A funny thing happened I thought I would share.  I did report this to
> Shaun McCance by email yesterday, but he is off to a conference so I
> don't expect to hear from him until next week at best.
> 
> Over the weekend, Shaun asked why we dropped the GNOME application
> documentation.  Now I hadn't given it a lot of thought. I know I
> sometimes had seen other stuff in Yelp, but not lately.  Since I wasn't
> responsible for that "other stuff" I assumed others had made some sort
> of decision and I didn't really give it any thought.
> 
> Well, while testing the F13 release notes I noticed that at one point I
> saw the documentation appear.  So I did a little test.
> 
> I made a temporary directory, and moved /usr/share/omf/about-fedora
> and /usr/share/omf/fedora-release-notes into the temporary directory (on
> F12).  Voila, the GNOME documentation appears.  Move either one back and
> the GNOME docs disappear!
> 
> I don't know if there is something quirky with our omf files or what.
> Hopefully Shaun can track down what is happening.

I'm not quite understanding what you're observing because when you say
"appears" and "disappears" I don't know what you're looking at.  I'll
get with you on IRC and once I get a clue, I'll report back!

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