Re: Documentation co-ordinator's tasks
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At 06:33 PM 6/26/98 -0400, Adam P. Harris wrote:
>Ardo van Rangelrooij <ardo.van.rangelrooij@tip.nl> writes:
>> First of all, I support you as the DDP co-ordinator.
>
>Oliver, I second you as well. Not that there's really a voting issue
>about it..
>
>> So, I'm orphaning all the manuals with my name as maintainer.
>
>Ardo, yes a good idea.
>
>> 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.
>
>Geeze I'm almost tempted to take that and outline it and then orphan
>it. That would be slash-n-burn though wouldn't it.
>
>> 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.
>
>The Faq-o-matic is like that (although I couldn't help feeling that it
>still needs agressive maintenance, i.e., taking good questions from
>debian-user and populating the faq-o-matic). I think that's a good
>idea, but don't fool yourself into thinking that a faq-o-matic
>arrangement means it's maintenance-free.
>
>> We already talked about some design issues, but it got never beyond
>> that point. I hope all of them get suitable parents. :-)
>
>We can hope.
>
>> "Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk> 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.
>
>Yes, and mark as orphaned what is orphaned.
>
>> > 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.
>
>You should tolerate heterogeny. I.e., robert wants to keep source on
>his own machine, and I guess manually update you; eventually he will
>move to CVS.
>
>I think you should gently encourage *everyone* to use cvs.debian.org
>but not make it a requirement.
>
>> > 3. Make packages of the various manuals, as soon as they contain any
>> > reasonable amount of material.
>
>I think this is kinda a big job, no? Do you really want to do this?
>I think you could still be quite useful w/o being the actual packager
>of the various manuals. I'm worried you'll get too bogged down.
>
>> > 4. Arrange for people to be able to upload material and have it appear
>> > in the development version.
>
>Development version of what?
>
>> > 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.]
>
>Certainly.
>
>There's another reason cvs is useful: contributors can be assured of
>patching off the *very latest* version. So it's revision control and
>software distribution in that sense.
>
>> > 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.
>
>Yes, it looks like James will help you there.
>
>> > 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!
>
>This reminds me of the linux patch page at
>http://samba.anu.edu.au/linux-patches/ (isn't Jitterbug a .deb yet?).
>
>I think it's outside your scope as document coordinator to enforce
>this for the documents themselves, although you might provide some
>sort of infrastructure for doc maintainers to use for kicks. Don't
>get too ambitious here, though, let's keep it simple.
>
>> > 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.
>
>Maybe it's my confusion, but I think you need a quick statement of the
>*scope* of your duties.
>
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