discuss: Some questions
Subject:
Re: [discuss] Some questions
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
19 Nov 2008 20:21:15 +0000
Message-Id: <20081119201236.GC2201@davespc>
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 05:16:53PM +0100, jdd for http://tldp.org wrote:
> Mail Lists a ?crit :
> > Hello all,
> > whilst checking the mirrors I have come across a couple of things that people
> > might be able to help me with.
> > 1. I notice that in the HowTo list there are a number of documents that
> > are "under review". For example the C++ Programming HowTo removed for review
> > in November 2002. This seems like a long time for a review?
>
These HOWTOs removed for review are likely the ones by AlDev that he
had made worse by modifying. In one case I found he had just copied
stuff from the Internet without attribution (plagiarized) and pieced
it together so that there was a complete loss of continuity at various
point in the resulting doc. I also found a scam run by him on the
Internet, etc. Don't put these docs back unless they are reviewed
first. They will likely fail a review.
> this classification is obsolete, for lack of reviewer. In fact we have
> to put these document in the page (Page_Status) and copy the
> wiki if the author/licence allows
>
> This is a huge task. I think it's not really proritary, in the
> "draft" document, I planned to use the hole 2009 year to this task
> (it's of little interest to put a HOWTO online without some work on it)
>
> I'm working with Greg on the export wiki->docbook->static Web site and
> it sems to be fairly simple - more soon. after that we be able to work
> on the wiki and export to static, we don't have to do so very often.
>
> > 2. There does seem to be some problem displaying this page
> > ~/LDP/manpages/man.php
> > Some sites do display it fine, others display it as plaintext, and some not at
> > all. Is this something to with the man.php file itself?
>
> I simply don't understand why this file have a "php" extension, it's
> plain html!
>
> If nobody complain right now, I will change it to man.html (but will
> need to verufy all the links are updated, should not be difficult)
>
> > 3.On all the sites I looked at (including the mainsite, tldp.org) this page
> > was blank;
> > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/faqs/
>
> in fact, http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/ seems to be an old LDP
> home site - some files are as old as 1993!! probably good only as history?
>
> anyway I keep a copy (wget)
>
> may be we should ask ibiblio to remove them?
>
> > 4. The Author database link on the main page ( http://tldp.org/ )which links
> > to
> > http://avalonix.co.uk/tldp/
> > asks for a login. Is this correct behaviour?
>
> yes and no. Yes it's intended, but I think some week ago this site was
> to be openned??
>
> thanks helping
> jdd
>
>
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David Lawyer
