discuss: status report author checkup
Subject:
status report author checkup
From:
Machtelt Garrels ####@####.####
Date:
8 Aug 2005 14:59:41 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0508081446090.5626-100000@cobra.xalasys.com>
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Hello Everybody,
At the time when I started the checkup, about two weeks ago, there were
+/- 450 documents in our HOWTO list
(http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html). As an arbitrary
limit on up-to-dateness of the document, I considered that if the document
was updated this year, the author would probably still be alive. About 30
authors updated their documents this year.
All the others were contacted. By now, over 110 authors answered. Most
of them (over 80) said that they would update their document during the
coming weeks or months, or that it is still up to date.
Fifteen authors have asked to archive their document because it is no
longer current and can not be updated because the technology discussed is
no longer in use and they don't get any feedback any longer. Fifteen
others are looking for a new maintainer.
That leaves me with a list of nearly 340 authors, to whom 132 mails
bounced. The others didn't answer (yet). In other words: a good half of
our authors didn't reply. For now, I'll give them credit because of the
holiday season. I'll keep you posted on this.
Tille.
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Machtelt Garrels ####@####.####
Co-editor of LDP Weekly News http://tldp.org/ldpwn/latest.html
My Penguin, my freedom. http://tille.xalasys.com
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