Re: Progeny GPLs manual
On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 09:10:19PM -0800, Bruce Byfield wrote:
> Chris Tillman wrote:
>
> >
> >There's a lot of good information here, mostly directly applicable to
> >Debian. Even screen shots! The quality seems very good.
> >
> >I think there's a large hole in the Debian documentation bin labelled
> >Beginner/Novice. This would fill that hole nicely.
> >
> >I'm willing to work on it, if others also think there's a place here for
> >it.
> >
> Great!
>
> The project is still in its early stages, so not much that's concrete is
> likely to happen for the next couple of weeks. But here's what is going on:
>
> - I'm looking for volunteers. I'm going to go through Techwr-l, the
> technical writer's mailing list, and the Debian Doc list.
> - A CVS tree will have to be set up. Progeny may host it; I'm not sure yet.
> - A mailing list is also needed. Again, Progeny may host it.
> - A non-proprietary format needs to be decided on. Once a few more
> people are involved, we can discuss that in more detail.
> - Once the format is decided, we need to convert the existing files to it.
> - The first stage in writing will be to replace the existing references
> to Progeny-specific tools with general Debian information.
>
> I'll be in touch as things get organized. Meanwhile, thanks for
> volunteering!
OK. The rumble from the rails on formats is saying 'DocBook XML', I think.
lists.debian.org/debian-doc/2001/debian-doc-200112/msg00076.html
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