discuss: Dealing with poor maintenance by maintainers
Subject:
Re: Dealing with poor maintenance by maintainers
From:
Tabatha Persad ####@####.####
Date:
12 May 2002 23:56:42 -0000
Message-Id: <20020512235615.NTCL10136.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@there>
I agree, David.
Since I feel like a member of an Open Source community, I don't think it
would be unreasonable if the LDP told me when submitting my new howto that in
the event I become unreachable, I allow permission for a member of the LDP to
ensure my documentation remains up to date.
Most people can generally agree on standards that improve the quality of
their work. As I mentioned, if this point of view disturbs a potential
author, they are more than welcome to maintain their own documentation as
before, this is only meant to be a provision if the work has been abandoned.
(I still think it's a great way to keep an author from abandoning the work
too.)
Otherwise the repository becomes a library of dead documentation. And that
doesn't help anybody. I would see this standard as a step in the right
direction from an author point of view, since if I can't be available to
help, then someone else will, all to keep my original document "in
circulation." After all, just because I stopped maintaining it, doesn't mean
I wouldn't still get credit for being the original author. No harm done to
me!
On Sunday 12 May 2002 19:26, David Lawyer wrote:
> > I would say the licence should be changed so that if an HOWTO is
> > accepted "tldp" has the right to proofread and fix the bugs either
> > discovered during proofreading phase or whenever appropriate.
>
> It's best to have only the maintainer doing this. As for the license, I
> think we should come up with a licesense with options. One option
> would be that the doc can't be modified unless it is not adequately
> maintained. Then someone else could take over a doc which isn't being
> maintained. The other option(s) would allow modification without the
> consent of the copyright owner.
>
> David Lawyer
>
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