discuss: Volonteer lacks or(inc) TLDP on the turn ?
Subject:
Re: Volonteer lacks or(inc) TLDP on the turn ?
From:
Machtelt Garrels ####@####.####
Date:
2 Mar 2005 14:38:00 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0503021433130.2997-100000@cobra.xalasys.com>
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On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Mathieu Deschamps wrote:
> For instance, I want to share a guide (It's been written) so I send a
> RFC to my draft onto this
> lists, very well. But first it needs to be standartized and I'am routed to
> Authoring Guide/HOW-TO. Pages later, I understand it was made for people
> who are in writing their TLDP doc. I'd say that being a volonteer gets
> harder every day :) Briefly speaking there's a lack of readliness. For
> me, it's just, how come I publish under TLDP stds my written doc ? How
> to convert ? It shoud not be
> 50 pages long ? Anyways, anycases 'am thrown in the main uniq stream.
Hello Mathieu,
I'm sorry to hear that you feel this way, especially since I explicitly
told you that you need not botter with the formatting, we can do it for
you. We want our authors to focus on content, and not on how it is
displayed.
Apart from that I see your point, for instance in the abstract of the
Author Guide:
"This guide describes the process of submitting and publishing a document
with The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP). It includes information about
the tools, toolchains and formats used by TLDP. The document's primary
audience is new TLDP authors, but it also contains information for
seasoned documentation authors. "
That is indeed what is starts out with, which is good, but the abstract
does not tell about the largest part of the Guide, which discusses "How to
write". On the other hand, chapter two holds the most important info on
one page: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/html/process.html
and has everything you need to know. You virtually don't need to read it
all through to the end, unless you really want to.
The "How to submit" link on the first page of teh TLDP site links to this
page directly. What can we do to make it easier?
Tille.
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