editors: Thread: Re: status of document]

Hi all,

Forwarded by Doug Jensen were several responses on unmaintained
documentation, some by the authors themselves.

If I could get some general agreement to move these to unmaintained,
I'll be glad to do so.  

Please let me know.

Tab


-----Forwarded Message-----
From: doug jensen ####@####.####
To: ####@####.####
Subject: Re: status of document
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 10:56:44 -0700

On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 05:38:26PM -0800, David Lawyer wrote:
> In the past, David Merrill would put docs into unmaintained if they
> weren't being maintained.  Although, if the author said they would try to
> find time to do it, it would still be considered maintained even when
> months would roll by with no fix.  But when the author didn't respond or
> said they were unable to maintain the doc, then it went to unmaintained.
> Thats the way it should be now.

Thanks, to all those that responded, I appreciate your help.

As a test case, please consider moving the following seven documents to the 
unmaintained section of TLDP.  I don't know what needs to be done next?

The #nnnnnn is the Debian bug number.

3-Button-Mouse-HOWTO, last update 1998May31, bug #158768
Author states (about 2002Aug30):
 | Thanks for the bug report- as you will notice the mini-HOWTO is rather
 | out of date, and has somewhat outlived its purpose.  I will find a new
 | permanent home for it, then do one last update.

Danish-HOWTO, last update 2000Mar09, (part of bug #95667)
Author states (2001Sep05):
 | Beware that Danish-HOWTO is no longer actively maintained since all
 | modern distributions support locales ``out of the box''. Besides we
 | now have better documentation in Danish (look at http://www.sslug.dk).

Laptop-HOWTO last update 2003Feb27, bug #201102
Author states (2003Aug02):
 | the Laptop-HOWTO has become the Linux-Mobile-Guide and now covers not
 | only laptops, but PDAs, mobile phones and other mobile computers. I had
 | some trouble with the LDP and did not submit it to them, so currently it
 | is only available at my TuxMobil site http://tuxmobil.org/howtos.html
 |
 | But I will consider to change that. The status of the document changed
 | from HOWTO to guide because it became much more bigger.
 | AFAIK there are no guides in the doc-linux package yet.
[ Note:  Don't know what the "trouble" was, perhaps someone should contact
         him?  Either way the Laptop-HOWTO itself is unmaintained ]

Linux+Windows-HOWTO, last update 2001Dec28, bug #116173
 Colin Watson found (2001Nov13) a new address, still no response.
[ Note:  Although the update date is after the attempted contact date,
         the spelling errors still remain. ]

Net-HOWTO, last update 2000Dec, bug #178233
 Mail bounces (2003Jan27)

Quota-HOWTO, last update 2003Aug, bug #173961
 Ambiguous license

Remote-Boot-HOWTO last update 1999Feb, bug #71758
Notes from Frank Lichtenheld (2003Sep21):
 | Some notes to this bug after some investigation:
 |
 | - The Remote-Boot mini-HOWTO is currently in nonfree
 | - There is a newer version of it available at
 |   http://cuiwww.unige.ch/info/pc/remote-boot/howto.html
 | but the licence has changed and it is undistributable what
 | explains why this newer version is not in the LDP
 |
 | Hmm, another HOWTO that seems unmaintained...


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