Re: Documentation co-ordinator's tasks
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At 02:47 AM 6/26/98 -0500, robert havoc pennington wrote:
>
>On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
>Just link to the tutorial for now, and I can keep the version up to date
>in my home directory until there's some kind of procedure in place to
>update the centrally-located version.
>
>> 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.
>>
>
>All good things.
>
>> 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 anyone on the Debian machines going to be screwing around with docs
>without asking? Are all the permissions needed?
>
>Personally I don't mind if other people want to change the document, as
>long as they don't get upset if I edit it or change it back. I can be a
>little brutal with red ink because I've been a newspaper editor. (though
>I'm not as bad as RMS; his comments are in CVS if you want to see the
>ego-bruising he sent me. lots of work left to do.) I would prefer to have
>everyone working on a unified document, rather than splitting things up by
>chapter, and I've quite freely chopped up Larry Greenfield's stuff and
>some things from the web site.
>
>However, for a reference rather than a tutorial, this may not be
>appropriate.
>
>> 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.
>>
>
>This would be cool. The simplest thing is probably to let authors keep the
>HTML/SGML in their home directory, and possibly cron job it to the main
>web site once in a while or whatever. I'm not sure exactly how the site
>works.
>
>> 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!
>>
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>Maybe we could have a submissions address of some kind.
>
>> 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.
>
>Sounds good.
>
>I say keep it simple and just get things running for now. Submissions by
>email, authors apply the diffs, edit/cleanup, checkout, build, and upload
>it wherever. Obviously this is easily scripted, except for the edit part.
>
>Thanks for volunteering to work on this. After all this talk and with a
>real web page I will definitely have to put my money where my mouth is and
>get the docs written. It is also very motivating to have the tutorial
>where users can actually find it and use it, I find. I've even gotten a
>couple of positive comments on what's there so far.
>
>Havoc
>
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