wiki: Revision History & and periodical freezes
Subject:
Re: [wiki] Revision History & and periodical freezes
From:
"Robert Spencer" ####@####.####
Date:
27 Aug 2008 23:27:23 +0100
Message-Id: <8b8c4c740808271527n76e1bcb5p423f90c7e59b5274@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:11 PM, jdd ####@####.#### wrote:
> Robert Spencer a écrit :
>
>> Yes, please don't have everything revolve around author co-operation,
>> they have let us down in the past and that's mostly because we aren't
>> thinking like a library.
>>
>> The LDP is a library and should be run as one, many of our problems
>> would be reduced if we did and we would be offering a better service
>> to the community that way.
>>
> I don't really see what you mean.
I'm not sure how to explain (it can lead to a long winded
description), I assumed everyone knew how libraries work. A faulty
assumption, I'll have to think about this and break it up into points.
> Library buy books and keep them until they are too worn to be read.. but
> these books are novells, mostly.
There are different types of libraries (legal, medical, deposit,
municipal, ...) that work on the same core theory, but with slightly
different results.
> at present time, authors send the revised HOWTO to the discuss list and
> somebody (who?) puts it on the CVS.
The present path isn't clear and is confusing. IIRC, authors have CVS
> The wiki is our cvs, now, or else how can we manage both?
>
> all this is not easy, but we have to find something manageable. One of the
> main thing I disliked in previous LDP was the fact than nobody know how/who
> is managing what, so when something don't work, how fix it?
>
> the questions are there: what do we want? how do we expect things to be
> done? who will do the task? when? what if the task is late?
>
> for example, who/how is managed this list (it's content)
> http://lists.tldp.org/go.to?list=feedback&cmd=monthbydate&month=200808
>
> jdd
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