Hi, First of all, I support you as the DDP co-ordinator.
Second, we should also redistribute the "maintainership" of some of the manuals. What I mean is that documents which are only/still in the planning stage should be owned by e.g. you or the DDP as a whole unless someone takes it up. This would also make clear to others who is actively doing what and whom to contact. When I took over the debiandoc-sgml package last January I already wanted to hand over the "maintainership" of some of the manuals, but Christian persuede me to "hang on". Since then I've mainly been working on that package and did not spend any time on the manuals. This is a bad situation which I regret. In other words, I think my main contribution to the DDP should be the maintenance of the debiandoc-sgml package. There's quite some work to do on this package and I would rather spend my time on one or two tasks doing them right than spreading it over a lot not doing a good job on either of those. So, I'm orphaning all the manuals with my name as maintainer. This includes the meta manual, user's manual, the sysadmin manual, the netadmin manual, the dictionary, and the book suggestions list. The user's manual should be renamed to reference guide. For the book suggestions list and the dictionary Christian had the idea of making them web-based in the sense that anybody could submit new entries for them, provide updates of existing entries, etc. We already talked about some design issues, but it got never beyond that point. I hope all of them get suitable parents. :-) Thanks, Ardo "Oliver Elphick" <[email protected]> writes: > Since I have volunteered to take over the job of co-ordinator that has been > made vacant by Christian Schwarz's departure, I had better explain what I > think needs doing, so that you can all decide if you want me to do it. > > 1. Move the DDP webpages onto a Debian machine (www.debian.org?); ask > Christian to alter the page at his site to point to the new location. > Add Havoc's Debian Tutorial to the pages. > > 2. Move the documentation source onto a Debian machine. Get from Ardo > or have people resubmit any contributions they have already made > and make sure that they are published. > > 3. Make packages of the various manuals, as soon as they contain any > reasonable amount of material. > > 4. Arrange for people to be able to upload material and have it appear > in the development version. > > I'm not sure of the merits of using cvs to do this, because I think that > only the original author and the editor should be changing text. Is it > possible to arrange cvs with limited permissions? [Each chapter owned by > its author, and in the documentation group; only the editors are group > members; all document sources have 664 permissions.] Ideally there > should be some kind of server that accepts submissions from authors, > incorporates them and runs a make of the HTML documentation, and (on > success) copies the HTML and SGML onto the website. > > Any material submitted should either appear on the website or be rejected > within a week. Reasons for rejection would mainly be that the SGML fails > to generate output; other circumstances are conceivable but would (I hope) > never arise! > > Any errors in content should become apparent if submissions are published. > If an author fails to correct an error quickly, I would expect to do it > myself, to avoid misleading readers. If any dispute arises, it would > ultimately go to the Technical Committee. > -- > Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver > PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 > ======================================== > "Love not the world, neither the things that are in > the world. If any man love the world, the love of the > Father is not in him." I John 2:15 -- Ardo van Rangelrooij home email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] home page: http://www.tip.nl/users/ardo.van.rangelrooij PGP fp: 3B 1F 21 72 00 5C 3A 73 7F 72 DF D9 90 78 47 F9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
