discuss: How to get contributions
Subject:
Re: How to get contributions
From:
walter harms ####@####.####
Date:
21 Apr 2005 15:25:59 -0000
Message-Id: <4267C658.8070405@bfs.de>
hi Machtelt,
of couse be pro active, even when the document end up in the
unmaintained section.
A lot of ppl write documents that will be erased when the graduate (or
leave, or ...) its to bad. tldp is a good place to store stuff.
maybe someone else is interessted in maintaining it later.
re,
walter
Machtelt Garrels wrote:
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> Hello All,
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> Below is an E-mail conversation I had today because somebody posted a
> message on the feedback mailinglist saying hey, this document should be
> in the TLDP collection. So I contacted the author and got positive
> feedback right away.
>
> Maybe we should generally be more pro-active?
>
> Tille.
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> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 14:02:26 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Machtelt Garrels ####@####.####
> To: Trevor Woerner ####@####.####
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> On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Trevor Woerner wrote:
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>>Hi Machtelt,
>>
>>On 4/21/05, Machtelt Garrels ####@####.#### wrote:
>>
>>>Are you the author of the document mentioned below? If so, would you care
>>>to contribute it to the Linux Documentation Project?
>>
>>Yes, I am the author of said document and I would be happy to donate
>>that work to the LDP (which has been of great help to me many times in
>>the past). To help this process please let me know what you need and
>>what changes are required (content, licence, etc.).
>
>
> Hello Trevor,
>
> Glad to hear this response, we should get more of those!
> The entire procedure is descibed in the Author Guide, see
>
> http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/html/index.html
>
> but since this is too much reading for
> most people, we are working on a shorter version, draft of which is here:
>
> http://tille.xalasys.com/training/tldp/images/tldp-publishing-flowchart.pdf
>
> So you will need to subscribe to the discuss mailinglist and check that
> everybody agrees (this was just my personal initiative because I got this
> message through the feedback mailinglist). If so (and given the topic of
> your document, I think chances are good), we will assign a reviewer and
> convert the document to DocBook XML and then publish it.
>
> As for the license, this is also in the author guide, see
>
> http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/html/doc-licensing.html
>
> Please let me know if you have more questions, I'd be glad to help.
>
> Tille.
>
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