discuss: LDP history
Subject:
LDP history
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
18 Apr 2009 08:54:44 +0100
Message-Id: <20090417194632.GB2797@davespc>
Should I try to improve Garrels history of the LDP? There are a lot
of events not covered. One was my survey of sites that showed that
the majority of them carried stale LDP documentation, which compounded
the problem of the fact that many LDP docs were out-of-date. Also,
statistics need to be included. Credit should be given to David
Merrill who was doing a content management system for us but had no
one to finish it when he became too ill to continue. Also Lars
resignation as leader should be mentioned as well as LDP being
de-facto leaderless for a number of years. The "intervention" by Joy
Y. of IBM needs to be mentioned. And LDP disappearing from the
internet due to failure to renew the linuxdoc domain should be
mentioned. The speculation that the Open Source Writers Group might
take over the role played by LDP should be mentioned too. Also, there
was an effort to unify all Linux documentation that had a lot of ideas
but got nowhere and wound up with everyone leaving the special mailing
list created for such discussion.
The dropping of LDP documentation by distributions (except Debian and
?) needs mentioning. And the Al Dev affair should be mentioned (His
howtos contained a lot of exaggerations and some plagerisms and he
refused to discuss this on the mailing list).
In fact, a good history would have links to the LDP archives of the
mailing list, etc., where much of this was discussed. I think that if I
don't do it, no one will. Yet it may be more important to work on
simplified documentation for volunteers. The story of LDP is that of
one crisis (or problem) after another but it somehow survived them all.
David Lawyer
