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

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

Am 22. Mar, 2019 schwätzte Laura Arjona Reina so:

moin moin,

OK. I will start looking over the weekend.

Let me know if find any pending requests.

ciao,

der.hans

> Hi!
>
> El 22 de marzo de 2019 18:57:39 CET, "der.hans" <Verteiler+debian-www@LuftHans.com> escribió:
> > Am 21. Mar, 2019 schwätzte Laura Arjona Reina so:
> >
> > moin moin Laura,
> >
> > I would like to help out with this if I can.
>
> Great! Thanks!
>
> Do you have to be a debian
> > developer to help?
> No, merge requests in Salsa or diffs/patches to the list are perfectly fine. After some successful contributions, you could get permissions to commit directly to the repo.
>
>
> > The initial need is to go through the current list and verify the
> > listed
> > books are relevant to stable?
>
> Yes, we can start with that.
> If I receive a new request via books@ I can forward. I'll also have a look at the mailbox archives to see if there is a pending request and file a bug.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> > 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 On the contrary, an outdated or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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