Hello Jeff Bailey!
On Tue, 4 July 2000 at 00:14:33, you wrote:
>
> I can respond to why I chose to create the hurddocs site first.
Well - IMHO Trent Fisher did start this. A long time ago he
handed his pages over to the FSF people, making it the official
site if I remember it right. Someone even went to the trouble
and revamped the stuff in the meantime.
When Markus Brinkmann started his Debian distribution he put
together information pertaining his efforts and stuff that would
be of interest to end users. That was the first split and it was
good even though it wasn't a perfect situation. The best thing
probably still would be to gather each and every bit of information
in order to feed it back to anyone who is willing to maintain the
pages on the FSF server actively - perhaps with the notable
exception of information pertaining the Debian distribution
exclusively. One would need to keep in mind that Markus Brinkmann
himself would probably need someone who could maintain the Debian
specific pages on his behalf as he does not seem to have enough
time for this anymore - correct me if I'm wrong.
I mean - it's not a bad thing to have many sites about the Hurd
but I don't think we can afford duplicated efforts for some time
to come - at least - it would be somewhat wasteful, wouldn't it.
Now - what do you think? Any comments? Am I making sense?
While I am at it - going through the archives of the HURD
mailing lists in order to add to the documentation would be
a task worth persuading. For a start - once upon a time I
just took the '--help' output of all the servers, tried to
add what little I knew, put some rudimentary HTML markup
around it and sent it over to Marcus Brinkmann just to
cheer him up a bit. He added more information to it over
time and even did the same with related tools. As I said -
it's bad but it's better than nothing at all. ;-)
(As a random note aside - I fully agree with OKUJI Yoshinori
when he insists on RTFM - he went to a lot of trouble to
document what he did, so another site for Grub would be
overly wasteful if not harmful - consider rapid changes and
the situation you are in if you provide the wrong, outdated
information. That would be bad, wouldn't it.)
/bye
Dirk
