Re: RFA: www.debian.org/doc/books

["der.hans" <Verteiler+debian-www@LuftHans.com>]

Am 21. Mar, 2019 schwätzte Laura Arjona Reina so:

moin moin Laura,

I would like to help out with this if I can. Do you have to be a debian
developer to help?

The initial need is to go through the current list and verify the listed
books are relevant to stable?

ciao,

der.hans

> Dear all
> As part of the recent web team sprint [1] (report will come in the
> following days hopefully), we have reviewed several areas of the website
> that were in need of maintenance.
>
> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2019/DebianWebTeam
>
> For the /english/doc/books page [2], we need maintainer(s) to keep
> up-to-date the database of books, process new requests, and care about
> the bugs related to the list of books, if any.
>
> [2] https://www.debian.org/books
>
> This is a call for help, or request for "adoption": would anybody
> volunteer to this task?
>
> In the /english/doc folder of our repo [3] you can find the
> books-related files.
>
> [3]
> https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml/blob/master/english/doc/
>
> Maintaining the /doc/books section can be a nice entry point for
> somebody to get involved in the Debian web team. Technically speaking,
> it's an easy job, but the "curation" task that a human provides is very
> appreciated by our users. On the contrary, an outdated or unmaintained
> list of books looses its value very quickly.
>
> If somebody is interested in adoption, they won't be alone (at least at
> the beginning). I've included my address in the alias books@debian.org
> to work together with them until they find a suitable workflow and they
> feel comfortable doing the task themselves. We'll also document
> everything for others to jump in too.
>
> If nobody steps ahead at the end of the year, we'll move the current
> (English) content to a page under wiki.debian.org, removing the section
> (English and translations) from www.debian.org.
>
> If you are interested, reply to this message in the public mailing list
> (debian-www@lists.debian.org) or privately to books@debian.org and I'll
> point to detailed steps to start. You can also join #debian-www IRC
> channel (in irc.debian.org).
>
> Kind regards,

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