discuss: Re: The LDP guys no longer return my EMails
Subject:
Re: The LDP guys no longer return my EMails
From:
Hal Burgiss ####@####.####
Date:
28 Aug 2001 15:15:47 -0000
Message-Id: <20010825171948.D22138@bellsouth.net>
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 05:11:55PM -0300, Harald Welte wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:46:38AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> (first of all as intro: I am one of the other netfilter core team members)
Hi, yes, I use your work ;) And read the FAQs too.
> > However, they are in linuxdoc, not docbook, as are the 10
> > translations. IIRC, LDP prefers docbook these days. I don't
> > really want to make life harder for the translators, so I'm not
> > sure converting them is a good idea. I am, however, open to
> > suggestions.
>
> All reasonable translations are translations of the Linuxdoc SGML
> master document, so if there was an automatic conversion process
> (just converting the sgml tags to what DocBook expects by a script
> or something), there shouldn't be a problem.
There are scripts that convert Linuxdoc -> DocBook, but they are not
100%. They still require some manual editing to get it right. So this
is a nice starting point where a doc is being transitioned to DocBook.
I suspect there is a good reason for this, but it escapes me ATM ;)
> Just converting the english master from linuxdoc-sgml to DocBook
> isn't a good idea - how should the translators proceed in that case
> ?
I would think the Linuxdoc SGML would be perfectly acceptable.
> Just because of curiosity: What happens after the HOWTOs have been
> submitted to LDP? How do we (the netfilter/iptables maintainers)
> get them updated? Do the translators automatically get notices (e.g.
> CVS commit logs) as soon as the english master is changed?
Maybe someone else will be good enough to answer this.
AFAIK, authors are encouraged to use CVS, but again it is not a
requirement. As far as a formal submital, this can be done via LDP
CVS, email with attachment, or email with URL. So if they are happy
where they are, I don't see a reason to change this.
Again, if I misspoke, Greg or David can correct me.
--
Hal B
####@####.####
####@####.####
####@####.####
Spamtrap: ####@####.#### and ####@####.####
--
