discuss: Proposing some new HOWTOs
Subject:
Re: Proposing some new HOWTOs
From:
Shuvam ####@####.####
Date:
18 Sep 2001 06:30:10 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0109181052420.2955-100000@sm.starcomsoftware.com>
> > I know about the LDP Guides, but do you think we could still make our
> > content into HOWTOs? We don't even mind publishing the matter as both
> > two HOWTOs and one Guide, if that's okay. Basically we feel that we'll
> > reach a wider audience if this stuff is in the HOWTO list rather than as
> > Guides.
>
> Why do you feel that way? I'm just curious.
Oh, that's because we seem to find that many more people read about,
and know of, the HOWTOs than the Guides. I guess it is because the HOWTOs
are perceived as being more concise. And one of our aims in contributing
to the LDP is to let people know the kind of expertise we have in our
company. Therefore we would like to see that our contribution is more
visible, as long as it doesn't hurt LDP's objectives.
> > That way, we can either make it one large book which is a successor to
> > Shishir Gundavaram's original text, or we can make it a set of HOWTOs
> > for Perl and Web app development, or _both_ :). Whatever you guys feel
> > makes more sense is fine with us.
>
> Either approach is good. I like having a full guide, but if you really
> prefer HOWTOs we'll go with that.
I was wondering: can't we have both?
Shuvam
