Re: editing Debian documentation

2004-07-30 Thread Nori Heikkinen
[snip] can i just say that this kind of message/thread is exactly why i love this list? it's precisely this kind of info that i haven't sought out, and therefore haven't found forthcoming, and it's also this kind of info that encourages me to get more involved, be a package maintainer ... or at l

Re: editing Debian documentation

2004-07-30 Thread Carla Schroder
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

Re: editing Debian documentation

2004-07-29 Thread David Nusinow
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 11:51:01AM +1000, Jenn Vesperman wrote: > On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 06:05, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > 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 right

Re: editing Debian documentation

2004-07-29 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 06:05, Steve Langasek wrote: > > 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 h

Re: editing Debian documentation

2004-07-29 Thread Steve Langasek
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

Re: editing Debian documentation

2004-07-27 Thread Pia Smith
On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 07:23, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > If you just want to help with > documentation you should probably subscribe to debian-doc@lists.debian.org > for all the documentation that is maintained within the DDP CVS. You > should be able to contribute to the DDP without being a Debian

Re: editing Debian documentation

2004-07-26 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
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 dema