wiki: Revision History & and periodical freezes
Subject:
Re: [wiki] Revision History & and periodical freezes
From:
"Robert Spencer" ####@####.####
Date:
27 Aug 2008 23:40:37 +0100
Message-Id: <8b8c4c740808271540l4eb864e3g200a197269b8342@mail.gmail.com>
Sorry, I don't know why Gmail sent half of the message.
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:27 AM, Robert Spencer ####@####.#### wrote:
> 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
accounts and upload their documents themselves or if they are new and
don't have an account ask staff to upload for them. Howto's aren't
supposed to be sent via the discuss list.
>> 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?
Yes, that's a big problem. :-(
>> 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?
Unless we can get the present staff's attention and co-operation it's
all futile.
>> for example, who/how is managed this list (it's content)
>> http://lists.tldp.org/go.to?list=feedback&cmd=monthbydate&month=200808
It's not managed/moderated hence the spam. Sergiusz Pawlowicz is list
server admin and Machtelt Garrels is suppost to answer mail on the
feedback list. I haven't heard anything from her in quite a while, I
hope she's still okay. :-(
--
Robert Spencer
