discuss: Maintainer needed for Serial-Programming-HOWTO
Subject:
Re: Maintainer needed for Serial-Programming-HOWTO
From:
Howard Shane ####@####.####
Date:
4 Apr 2003 03:28:21 -0000
Message-Id: <3E8CFBB9.5030609@charter.net>
This may be an ignorant question, but why haven't the members of TLDP
made it policy to accept only one or two DTDs? The author HOWTOs and
FAQs are contradictory on which formats are best, and I can tell just
from the time I've been on the list that having to stay on top of
several formats complicates things and detracts from the purpose of the
project.
Sorry if I ignite anyone's ire, I've been curious about this one for
some time and can no longer resist the temptation to ask.
hs
David Lawyer wrote:
>On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 11:53:41PM +0200, Alexander Bartolich wrote:
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>>David Lawyer wrote:
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>>>[...] But I consider Linuxdoc to be a lot easier to work with and hence
>>>"better" in a sense. So I think that step one was negative progress :-).
>>>
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>>Sure. And the South will rise again.
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>>>[...] This info was already in Vern Hoxie's Serial-Programming-HOWTO
>>>and I had let the maintainer know about this when he took it over.
>>>So I jumped to the conclusion that the HOWTO wasn't being maintained
>>>
>>>
>>Well, I followed the link to ftp://scicom.alphacdc.com/pub/linux and
>>found two interesting flat text documents. Looks good.
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>>As I see it you really need a DocBook grinder merging the stuff and
>>producing a nice to read, easy to maintain compound of working examples
>>and fully LDP-complying markup.
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>I don't agree. DocBook source looks cluttered and is harder to maintain than
>Linuxdoc, especially if one uses an editor that doesn't support DocBook.
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>This whole episode tends to show the problems with DocBook. If the time
>spent converting it to DocBook had been spent merging in Vern's stuff,
>we might have had a better HOWTO for the last year and a half. Vern
>accused people at the LDP as emphasizing form over substance when it
>should be the other way around. On this I think he was right.
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>>I'll give it a try.
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>It's not up to me to say no, but I really would like to see Gary
>Frerking work on it since he had it originally and says he's willing to
>give it another try. I feel bad about asking for a new maintainer when
>I should have contacted him first. But if it turns out that Gary
>Frerking doesn't have time to do it, then I would like to see you do it.
>I also suspect that Gary is more knowledgeable about the subject.
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> David Lawyer
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