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Subject: Re: [discuss] staff situation
From: David Greaves ####@####.####
Date: 29 May 2008 08:47:22 +0100
Message-Id: <483E60FA.9000205@dgreaves.com>

David Lawyer wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:47:43PM +0200, jdd wrote:
>> there is certainly somethings wrong: the dates on the web site seems  
>> showing nothing recent (excluding yours :-))
> 
> I checked for 2007 and there were over 20 updated HOWTOs including 3
> of mine.  This is out of a total of over 400 HOWTOs.  So let's assume
> that at least 1/4 of HOWTOs need to be updated yearly.  Then less than
> 20% of what needs updating is actually being updated.  Not good but
> better than nothing.

Has anyone seen howtoforge?

http://www.howtoforge.com/

By comparison it's a hive of activity.

**They have 20 updated 'howtos' in the last 17 days...**

It might make more sense to redirect tldp there.

I'm not being negative or trying to put down LDP - I am suggesting some
alternative approaches that don't rely on the miraculous appearance of technical
know-how and volunteer editors.

I am not sure of the commercial status of that organisation - hopefully it's a
NFP like LDP.

David

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