As Kern announced last Friday, I am taking on the task to get the Bacula manual published as a printed book. (We have had many emails back and forth discussing the book.) I have experience with this as a self-publisher and also as an co-author for a major publisher. And I already have ISBN number for the upcoming Bacula book. (If you want details, email me.)
This email is to solicit your feedback and to coordinate those interested in participating with co-authoring content or editing. Whether you are a beginner, developer or power user of Bacula, I'd appreciate your comments and advice. Feel free to email me off-list and I will be glad to summarize the feedback in a later posting. I have been building a quite long list of items to fix and improve. And I have done a bunch of work fixing numerous typos, etc. (committed a lot of this) and formatting for printed book. I purposely don't provide my TODO list here or suggestions on improving outline, etc., as I'd like to first get your feedback. One thing to note, the original document reformatted in book size was around 940 pages. With some cleanup, I have got my copy down to around 860 pages. 1) If you are interested in helping as a technical reviewer or writing content, please let me know. You don't have to commit to reading entire book, but maybe some chapters would be great. 2) Please have a look over the table of contents at http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/ to review the topic areas. Please suggest content, ordering ideas, topics, or sections that should be included in printed book or should not be included in book. (Kern already provided a basic outline, but your opinion would be appreciated too.) 3) Some of the content is redundant at least for printed book. On a case-by-case basis, we will work on merging or removing content for the printed book. Please share your comments about (or diffs for) this. 4) Any comments on what the objective of the book should be? 5) What is missing? 6) What is good about existing manual? Thanks, Jeremy C. Reed p.s. If you want the latest copy of my custom PDF of the book, let me know. (If okay, I may get it uploaded to the sourceforge webpage so you all can review it easily.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
