discuss: Thread: Re: Your Bzip2 HOWTO in The Linux Documentation Project

Apologies if you're getting this again: I tried to send it a couple of
days ago and I got a reply from Gmail telling me that I was on some
Chinese spam list and couldn't send it.  That hurts.  Surely I can't
be *that* irritating :P

Borden

On 05/01/2009, David Fetter ####@####.#### wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 03:51:16PM -0500, Borden Rhodes wrote:
>> Good afternoon, David,
>> I am a reviewer for and supporter of TLDP. We are currently trying to
>> determine the status of all the documents in TLDP's repository. Many
>> pages there are outdated, and we hope to update and improve them. In
>> order to achieve that, the current TLDP staff (including myself)
>> collect information about the documents (HOWTOs, articles, and
>> others).
>> According to TLDP documents, you are the author of the Bzip2 HOWTO.
>> Could you please answer the following questions?
>> 1. Would you like to maintain your published document?
>
> Sure.
>
>> 2. Would you like your document to be editable by others? We set up
>> our wiki to make possible that scenario, in hopes of attracting more
>> people to support, maintain, and update pages there.
>
> That'd be great :)
>
>> 3. Do you agree your HOWTO being copied to the wiki WITH the new
>> default TLDP Licence, http://wiki.tldp.org/LdpWikiDefaultLicence? (It
>> is GFDL v. 1.2 without invariant sections.) You can find TLDP's wiki
>> at wiki.tldp.org. The GFDL enjoys widespread use for documentation.
>> You can find a reference copy at
>> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.2-standalone.html .
>
> Happy to :)
>
>> 4. Do you agree to your HOWTO being managed via the wiki (controlling
>> the editing process, releasing versions for deployment to the static
>> mirrored pages)?
>
> Sure.
>
>> And a personal request, since we have limited resources, very limited,
>> I would remark: We need every help available in spreading the idea of
>> and information about TLDP. I would like to ask for your support and
>> help. Tell others, and spread the news of and information about TLDP
>> and our new project - TLDP wiki.
>
> I'll do what I can.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
>> You could find TLDP's wiki at wiki.tldp.org, Also a discussion for the
>> new TLDP manifesto - http://wiki.tldp.org/WikiManifesto And the
>> Getting Involved page -
>> http://wiki.tldp.org/Rewriting%20Manifesto/GettingInvolved
>> Thank you in advance.
>> Borden Rhodes
>
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####@####.#### a écrit :

>>> 2. Would you like your document to be editable by others? We set up
>>> our wiki to make possible that scenario, in hopes of attracting more
>>> people to support, maintain, and update pages there.
>> That'd be great :)
>>
>>> 3. Do you agree your HOWTO being copied to the wiki WITH the new
>>> default TLDP Licence, http://wiki.tldp.org/LdpWikiDefaultLicence? (It
>>> is GFDL v. 1.2 without invariant sections.) You can find TLDP's wiki
>>> at wiki.tldp.org. The GFDL enjoys widespread use for documentation.
>>> You can find a reference copy at
>>> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.2-standalone.html .
>> Happy to :)
>>
>>> 4. Do you agree to your HOWTO being managed via the wiki (controlling
>>> the editing process, releasing versions for deployment to the static
>>> mirrored pages)?
>> Sure.

conversion done, proofread needed :-)

http://wiki.tldp.org/Bzip2

thanks
jdd

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