Subject:
Re: Volonteer lacks or(inc) TLDP on the turn ?
From:
Mathieu Deschamps ####@####.####
Date:
3 Mar 2005 15:52:40 -0000
Message-Id: <20050303155211.78494.qmail@web60410.mail.yahoo.com>
What you say is all true up to a point. Simply I'd love it go fine, quick to the point.
If I need to read 50 online pages with poor connection can you say "your" authors
are strict to their studies ? Just quick contradicting...
You say I needn't care my doc, volonteer will, concerning how it is displayed same.
And what if I do care on how my doc will be displayed/converted, and what
modifications will it need to be accepted/displayed for its content ? This is a visible result of
month of hard working, I do care what/where/how, who don't in the same case?
Ok, I have to be more precise on my motivation before being intitled outside-stepper,
narrow-sider or whatever
For TLDP that's is my first attempt to authoring. I do it not only to share and then basta.
No, I try -as a programmer but not only- by the way to understand what format this community use, what software(docboook for instance I seen SGML/XML) it use, how it use it. I'am close to feel sorry for willing to know how it works, and to hack around.
My ultimate goal is to write future doc directly in LDP std format DocBook, to do it myself
few times to train if you want. And to know more about Linux and edition, so I think I'am
a right LDP user.
I'am not saying everybody want to do so, neither I declare it interests someone else but I.
But you could assume it does, whatever i do so.
Eg of pain in my ass : this morning I got 82 mails just of discussion (theses are thus interesting and sane) just about LDP. Very few is to my direct concern but because It is compulsory way in to get its doc reviewed/convert/translated/ and I don't know the rest of the usal job (where is it explained ?) you do in TLDP. For someone like I -that is an occasional author- it's does not fit my need. Ok I know, that a bit of commercial to client speech and that does not suit to TLDP. But still that refrain me for get involved more efficiently so I assume I might be true for someone else.
mathdesc
Machtelt Garrels ####@####.#### wrote:
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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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