discuss: staff situation
Subject:
Re: [discuss] staff situation
From:
Mark Komarinski ####@####.####
Date:
29 May 2008 19:31:20 +0100
Message-Id: <483EF5CA.9050700@wayga.org>
On 05/29/2008 04:56 AM, David Greaves wrote:
> Sergiusz Pawlowicz wrote:
>
>> howtoforge: again, they have a webpage, they do not provide books.
>>
>
> Seriously Sergiusz?
>
> Do you honestly think that LDP provides 'books'?
>
Yes. They may be split into HOWTOs and Guides, but at the core, they're
books.
> You have limited resources and a list of requirements; you need to prioritise...
> I guess I'm seeing:
>
> 1) They must be able to be typeset
> 2) They must have the correct boilerplate
> 3) They must be immutable (ie static text, not wiki)
> 4) They must go through a process
> 5) They must be up to date
> 6) They must be accurate
>
> Given that you meet your top 4 requirements by not doing *anything* then I guess
> everything is just fine...
>
> Personally I think that list is in precisely reverse order...
>
Docbook takes care of 1 and 2 quite easily and the LDP Author Guide
covers the remainder. I know this as I generated PDFs which I then
printed and bound as books and took to a number of conferences. As Karl
has already indicated, a majority of the early Linux books were merely
reprints of LDP material.
-Mark
