discuss: [tfox@redhat.com: HOWTO doc's in 7.3]
Subject:
Re: [tfox@redhat.com: HOWTO doc's in 7.3]
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
12 May 2002 18:13:15 -0000
Message-Id: <20020512111314.A512@lafn.org>
> > On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 07:28:42PM +0000, Trond Eivind Glomsr?d wrote:
> > > This statement is correct. Some of the LDP HOWTOs conflicted with
> > > the official RH docs, and we received several complaints about
> > > the correctness and format of the LDP docs. Thus, it was decided
> > > not to put them on the docs CD.
> >
> >
> On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 11:34:15PM +0200, Alexander Bartolich wrote:
> > He mentions both "correctness and format".
On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 06:12:07PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> Has anyone with some title or other around here bothered to officially
> contact Red Hat and asked 1) what were the problems, and 2) what they
> thought we might do to fix them, and 3) would they forward kindly the
> complaints of correctness and format to us so we can at least know
> what they are?
>
> Something that might help both the distributors and the LDP is for the
> distributors to put someone in their documentation department in
> charge of liaison with the LDP, and part of their duties is to bring
> problems like this to LDP's attention.
>
> I am not very senior around here (I released a HOWTO in January) but
> if the Powers That Be (PTB) would like, I'll take on the second
> proposal. I'll ask the LDP PTBs to appoint me liaison with the
> distributors so they have a single contact point.
We operate by informed consensus and I'm in favor of you going ahead
with this, with RedHat as the first priority. But wait for some others
(such as Guylhem, our leader) to say OK too. We've been (and are)
making progress in improving the quality of our collection. David
Merrill recently classified a number of HOWTOs as unmaintained and Joy
Goodreau is leading a review effort. So it's a shame that just as we
were making some progress in fixing our problems, RedHat dropped us.
Note that I've just proposed (in another post) that we provide a way for
maintainers that want out to search for another maintainer: by putting
such docs on a Wants-New-Maintainer list (or the like).
David Lawyer
