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Re: Alpha FAQ pages: upstream and maintainer unclear



On Tuesday 04 November 2003 08:26 am, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Hello,
> I am working on the aboot package, and I noticed that the upstream
> package contains also lots of documentation (Milo, SRM, AlphaFaq).
> This documentation is spread out over various places and I am unsure
> where and who maintains it.
>
> A. In the aboot package on sourceforge

Will Woods is the answer, as he is the author and maintainer of aboot.

> B. On www.alphalinux.org

Rich Payne or Peter Petrakis

> C. In the CVS of the Debian webpages

my wild guess would be Christopher Chimelis, but I have not chatted with him 
in a long time.

I will look more into this later in the day.


--George

>
> They are currently not included in the Debian aboot package proper.
> What I'd like to do:
>
> 1. Slightly update the documents (email adresses, Compaq -> HP, aboot
>    CVS and similar); though I am unable to find a proper copyright
>    notice :-((
> 2. Hand over those changes to the proper author and sync A. and B.
> 3. Include in some way A. in the debian aboot package.
>
> Having this documentation in the Debian Webpages would be nice because
> of the infrastructure (e.g. translations) but IMHO it would be more
> sensible to only supply a link from www.debian.org to
> www.alphalinux.org (otherwise they might get out of sync again, and
> other distros also need this information).
>
> Comments are welcome so that this information can be updated and
> synced properly.
>
> Greetings
>
>          Helge
>
> P.S. Sorry for the long CC: list, but I'd like to reach everybody
>      involved in one mail.



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