discuss: Staff Election was Re: LDP Committee?
Subject:
Re: Staff Election was Re: LDP Committee?
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
10 Mar 2005 06:09:44 -0000
Message-Id: <20050310055413.GB1251@lafn.org>
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:34:04AM +0000, Machtelt Garrels wrote:
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> On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Martin Wheeler wrote:
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> > Can we make this offical policy, someone, please?
> > And indicated as such on the website?
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> The Author Guide, which imho counts as the official policy, discourages
> LinuxDoc because it only talks about DocBook.
> If we had the resources, we could convert LinuxDoc documents to DocBook,
> but we do not have those resources. Apart from that, certain stubborn
> people (and we don't look at David L. ;-) keep using LinuxDoc and until
> they have seen the light, I'd rather keep them contributing instead of
> seeing those people walk away from TLDP.
Note that our HOWTO generator for people to type HOWTOs online generates
LinuxDoc. I think that if we made it easier for new authors: LinuxDoc
and a one-page Author Guide, we would have many more new authors. All
the time reviewers spent helping people with DocBook could have been
better spent on recruiting new authors, etc.
> We had this kind of discussion many times before, please check the
> archives before thinking that you can add any new components.
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> As I see it, it's a historical fact that we have to live with, for now.
> If anything, we should focus here on a LinuxDoc2DocBook converter, rather
> than argue about it.
Also needed is a converter to go the other way: DocBook2LinuxDoc.
David Lawyer
