On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > > > >I sent a message to Ardo about DUM, but I've got no reply. Since > >it's rather urgent I try you instead. > >
Ardo is a little slow to answer mail, but usually he does within a couple of weeks. The manual is theoretically split into an install manual covering configuration (the logical next steps after install.txt), then the tutorial covering end-user use, and finally some kind of sysadmin guide or reference manual. Only the tutorial actually exists in any form. The tutorial has hardly been touched in a couple months, but I hope to finally have more time. I just got a Debian account, and you can now access the tutorial at: http://www.debian.org/~hp/debian-tutorial.html I am trying to set up CVS but I can't seem to make remote access work. However, anyone with a Debian account can access it now: $ export CVSROOT=/cvs/tutorial $ cvs checkout tutorial I think the CVS tutorial is missing the last checkin Craig did, because my copy wasn't up to date, but that will get fixed soon. > >I don't know if you have authors for all chapters or which chapters > >are available. By first choice would be programming, but I could > >also write something else. > > I've also talked to David Teague about a programming chapter; maybe you guys could work out who wants to do it. There are many other options; have a look at what's there now and pick anything you're interested in that's not there. Let me know what you want to do before you leave, and we'll work on other parts. > What is going [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Things are moving veeerrry sloooowwwwly. ;-) Basically I've just started doing everything myself (web page, etc.), since this results in it getting done, if slowly. The tutorial now has a link from the main debian site and is available at the above URL. I think your contributions are in there, and mine, and some other stuff. We've gotten some response from users now, since it's been on the main Debian site; at least, it's been mentioned sometimes on debian-user. I also have 30k of comments from Richard Stallman that need to be incorporated. I would like to run this like a code development project. Basically, people send contributions; significant contributors get CVS write access; everyone feels free to make improvements to the tutorial. Anyway - please, if anyone wants to contribute, just write something up, however short, and send it to me. I'll add it to the document if it looks good. You don't have to do a whole chapter. In CVS there's a file which talks about copyright issues and some notes on formatting conventions - for now I'll put it at http://www.debian.org/~hp/AUTHOR-INFO It seems like the main content of the list is me giving status reports and telling how to contribute to a document that hasn't changed lately - I'd like it to be discussion of the Tutorial content instead! As you write please feel free to use this list as a development list, so progress is visible. Suggestions welcome, contributions appreciated. Thanks, Havoc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
