discuss: Processes was Re: Fedora Multimedia Installation HOWTO
Subject:
Re: Processes was Re: Fedora Multimedia Installation HOWTO
From:
Emma Jane Hogbin ####@####.####
Date:
6 Feb 2004 21:41:12 -0000
Message-Id: <20040206213841.GV2331@smeagol>
David sent this to just me by mistake. I'm sorry that he considers the LDP
Author Guide to be such a waste of time.
emma
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 12:59:16PM -0800, David Lawyer wrote:
> I think that it is very wrong to expect a new author to read the
> Author Guide. I haven't read it and would consider reading it to be a
> waste of my time since I've got so many other things more inportant to
> do. Just reading a one page "guide", such as we used to have in the
> HOWTO-INDEX should suffice plus learning of either LinuxDoc or DocBook.
> So one way to do this is to have a note at the very start of the guide
> about this. A "quick start" page could be put into it at the very
> start, along with info about LinuxDoc.
>
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 11:09:00AM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 05:09:54AM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > > I have belatedly been made aware that I should be subnmitting HOWTOs
> > > for review before shipping them to Greg Ferguson. Apologiies to
> > > anyone whose feathers I ruffled, but somehow you guys managed to
> > > invent an entire process while I wasn't looking
> >
> > You mean you don't read the Author Guide before each submission of a
> > document?! Oh the horror! ;) But seriously...the information has been up
> > on the site for a while (years perhaps?), but obviously it is not visible.
> > Can you recommend a better place to include information on the submission
> > process/requirements so that new (and existing) LDP authors will see it?
> > Maybe a link from Author/Contribute that says, "Submission Guidelines"?
> >
> > I spent about eight months re-writing the LDP Author Guide, and have
> > recently adopted the LDP Reviewer Guide. I would love it if everyone
> > could take a look through and let me know if any of the processes
> > described in the documents are unclear.
> >
> > Both documents have been around for years and have had the contributions
> > of many wonderful authors before they came to me.
> >
> > http://tldp.org/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/html/index.html
> > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LDP-Reviewer-HOWTO/index.html
> >
> > thanks,
> > emma
> >
> > --
> > Emma Jane Hogbin
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> >
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> >
> >
> David Lawyer
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Emma Jane Hogbin
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