On Thursday 29 July 2004 1:05 pm, Steve Langasek wrote: > Carla, > > On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 09:39:28AM -0700, Carla Schroder wrote: > > I'm not a programmer, just an old country sysadmin, so I've been thinking over > > what I can do in terms of supporting Debian. Would proofreading/copyediting > > be useful? I know that writing man pages and howtos is always in demand. But > > I've noticed that a lot of existing documention could use a bit of cleanup: > > spelling, grammar, clarity, and so forth. Is there anyone maintaining some > > documentation who would like an assist? > > Yes! We are *always* short-handed when it comes to documentation! > > Some references to get you started: >
Good stuff, thanks. > > > Do document maintainers have to go through months of hell like package > > maintainers to be officially accepted? > > If having to wait a few months for voting rights and formal recognition > by the project is "hell" to you, I don't really have much consolation to > offer. With few notable exceptions, most NMs weather their stay in the > queue with equanimity; and as a non-packaging developer, if anything > there would be fewer obstacles in the way of you getting work done than > for a package maintainer NM. > I have heard heart-rending tales of how the whole deal works. After reading David's post, it doesn't sound so hellish. (So eating dishes of worms was a big fib. Hmph.) -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carla Schroder this message brought to you by Libranet 2.8 and Kmail ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
