discuss: Maintainer needed for Serial-Programming-HOWTO
Subject:
Maintainer needed for Serial-Programming-HOWTO
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
27 Mar 2003 23:03:06 -0000
Message-Id: <20030327225519.GC1233@lafn.org>
I'm maintaining the Linux Documentation Project's Serial-HOWTO but it
doesn't cover programming. The Serial-Programming-HOWTO is supposed to
cover this but it needs a lot of improvement. Vern Hoxie rewrote it in
1999 but never submitted it. Instead, a new maintainer took over an old
1997 version and essentially did nothing with it. Even though the
latest version is dated 2001, it's really just the 1997 version. So it
needs a new maintainer who will rework it and combine the two versions
(the 1997 and Vern's 1999 which are very much different) or just redo
the whole thing from scratch. Any volunteers?
You might argue that little has changed since 1997 which is true. But
the 1997 version omitted a number of introductory topics which needed to
be included (and which Vern included). However, on my last communication
with Vern, he still refused to submit it (he didn't like having to use
sgml format, especially DocBook and didn't want to maintain it in
sgml format). He actually wrote it in Linuxdoc Format but didn't like
the rendering the "code" environment, etc. Statements on the discussion
list about the need to use DocBook and cvs turned him off. And my
personal contacts with him did no good. So I'm not even Ccing him, in
part because he is not currently active in discussion groups like he
once was. Fortunately, both versions use the same license so they may
be merged.
David Lawyer
