discuss: [tfox@redhat.com: HOWTO doc's in 7.3]
Subject:
Re: [tfox@redhat.com: HOWTO doc's in 7.3]
From:
Tabatha Persad ####@####.####
Date:
12 May 2002 20:39:44 -0000
Message-Id: <20020512203918.GAUW10136.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@there>
Greg,
Joy already knows about that one, so I'm going to leave that in her capable
hands! Mind you, being familiar with the procedures that are there help, and
I'm still kinda new around here... but enjoying the work and catching on fast!
The results come back fairly quickly when editing, since there is always an
initial effort to contact the author before making revisions.
If it's not already there, I wonder if a blurb about this issue in the
Author's Guide would help?
Again, it just surprises me that authors abandon their work. I imagine that
during the review/editing of existing documentation, we're going to probably
run into this quite a bit. Has anyone noticed an increase in unmaintained
lately?
Well, it's Mother's Day, time to go beat my family into serving me a
meal...(why of COURSE I'm joking...muahahaha)
Happy happy!
Tabatha
On Sunday 12 May 2002 16:21, Greg Ferguson wrote:
> > After several bounced emails, I have had to move on to try my luck
> > editing another document, but it does leave me frustrated. The
> > HOWTO still has some value, but with the author gone, I have no
> > idea what's going to happen next.
>
> Well, first off you need to tell us that. In which case we do our
> best to track down the author via google, etc. If we have no luck
> finding the author, we add it to the unmaintained documents list
> found at:
>
> http://tldp.org/authors/unmaint.html
>
> > I would also love a definitive procedure for authors who abandon their
> > documents; is there one?
>
> Well, what I've decribed above it what David and I have had in
> place for a year or so. Is it written down somewhere? No.
>
> > ...
>
> regards,
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Tabatha Persad
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