discuss: RPM Builder's Tricks and Traps HOWTO
Subject:
Re: RPM Builder's Tricks and Traps HOWTO
From:
"Eric S. Raymond" ####@####.####
Date:
8 Sep 2004 23:45:23 -0000
Message-Id: <20040908234512.GA2957@thyrsus.com>
Tor Slettnes ####@####.####
> Hmm. It is not listed on the "In Progress" page (not under the
> "Documents under Review" section, and even more worrisome, not even on
> the "New Documents and Documents in Progress" section).
>
> The steps, from beginning to end, are:
> - You propose the document on this list ####@####.####
>
> - There will be some discussion on the list, regarding
> redundancies, usefulness, etc...
>
> - You write (a portion of, or the whole) document.
I did these things.
> - You send it to ####@####.#### for feedback.
> It will then be listed in the "Documents in Progress" section
At no point was I told about this step.
> - Once it is completed, and has had some peer review, you
> send it to ####@####.#### saying that it is ready
> for final reviews.
>
> - A review coordinator (Emma or Tabatha) will locate and assign
> people to perform the following reviews in order:
> Technical Accuracy Review
> Language Review
> Markup/Metadata Review
In this case, the reviews happened before any coordinator stepped in.
Several listmembers suggested minor corrections and improvements, which
I duly incorporated.
> - Once your document has passed all these reviews (most likely,
> that will involve several iterations at each review), your
> document can be added to the CVS repository and made available
> for publication. Emma or Tabatha will update the revision
> number to 1.0.
>
>
> The fact that you are ESR and have 11 documents previously admitted to
> the TLDP does not exempt you from this process.
I agree. However, the process has to be *documented*, and it has to
*work* (that is, converge to a resolution within a reasonable time).
If it's either not documented, or doesn't work, it will have exempted
itself from me.
I have never seen these steps listed before. I think that may indicate
a problem in the LDP's process, or at least in the way it's explained to
would-be authors.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
