On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 02:03:20PM +0200, Dirk Ritter wrote:
> 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.
It was good for me, because I had accesse to the Debian web site CVS and
could deal in them to my liking. It is also good for people asking about
information about Debian GNU/Hurd.
> 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.
This is true. I am happy to have non-Debian specific stuff moved from the
Debian pages and will then remove it there.
> 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.
Well, currently there is not much need for maintaining, the information is
pretty much accurate. Except maybe the list of working packages, which is
going to be replaced by the autobuilder.
> 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.
I think what you say is basically right.
OTOH, I think that of the current sites about the Hurd, each one can serve a
specific purpose without much overlap.
> 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.
I started doing this, and will continue to do it when I have some spare
time. It's even better to also verify that reported bugs are fixed or
registered in the Debian BTS and to collect web sites and patches/add-ons on
the way.
> (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 the situation you are in if you provide the wrong, outdated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.)
I hope that GRUB will become the standard boot loader for many
distributions, so we don't need to include much GRUB documentation
in Hurd doc sites.
Thanks,
Marcus
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