discuss: Manifesto for 2010 (draft01) page
Subject:
Re: [discuss] Manifesto for 2010 (draft01) page
From:
David Greaves ####@####.####
Date:
5 Sep 2008 09:15:01 +0100
Message-Id: <48C0EA3D.8030905@dgreaves.com>
David Lawyer wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 09:02:52AM +0200, jdd wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I wrote down some ideas of what the LDP should be for the next year:
>>
>> http://wiki.tldp.org/draft01
>
> This is not much of a manifesto. The current (but a little old) LDP
> Manifesto http://www.linux.ucla.edu/LDP/manifesto.html seems to be
> better but needs some revision. At my last revision, only the first
> section was revised since that was the part that most needed revision.
> My plan was to go thru the rest later on, but it never happened since
> I thought that a higher priority was to come up with much simpler
> LDP rules (specified by howtos and guides) for writing documentation
> and reviewing it. I wrote a couple of HOWTOs for this purpose but
> they never got on the site.
It's fascinating that there is much discussion about docbooks, wikis, process,
format etc.
My primary complaint about LDP is that it presents outdated, misleading and
often plain *wrong* information to its readers - and it does so in an
authoritative manner.
Doctors have a creed "First, do no harm". Maybe LDP should have one:
"First, spread no misinformation".
David
PS David, do you mind if I enquire here if my periodic reminders of your
'promise' (for want of a better word) been getting through? I've seen no
response and no action.
