Hi! robert havoc pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > > > Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > > > > > >I sent a message to Ardo about DUM, but I've got no reply. Since > > >it's rather urgent I try you instead. > > > > > Ardo is a little slow to answer mail, but usually he does within a couple > of weeks. That usually depends on how busy I am (with work and other things :-). > The manual is theoretically split into an install manual covering > configuration (the logical next steps after install.txt), then the > tutorial covering end-user use, and finally some kind of sysadmin guide or > reference manual. Only the tutorial actually exists in any form. > > The tutorial has hardly been touched in a couple months, but I hope to > finally have more time. I just got a Debian account, and you can now > access the tutorial at: > http://www.debian.org/~hp/debian-tutorial.html > > I am trying to set up CVS but I can't seem to make remote access work. > However, anyone with a Debian account can access it now: > > $ export CVSROOT=/cvs/tutorial > $ cvs checkout tutorial > > I think the CVS tutorial is missing the last checkin Craig did, because > my copy wasn't up to date, but that will get fixed soon. > > > >I don't know if you have authors for all chapters or which chapters > > >are available. By first choice would be programming, but I could > > >also write something else. > > > > > I've also talked to David Teague about a programming chapter; maybe you > guys could work out who wants to do it. There are many other options; have > a look at what's there now and pick anything you're interested in that's > not there. > > Let me know what you want to do before you leave, and we'll work on other > parts. > > > What is going [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Things are moving veeerrry sloooowwwwly. ;-) Basically I've just started > doing everything myself (web page, etc.), since this results in it getting > done, if slowly. > > The tutorial now has a link from the main debian site and is available at > the above URL. I think your contributions are in there, and mine, and some > other stuff. > > We've gotten some response from users now, since it's been on the main > Debian site; at least, it's been mentioned sometimes on debian-user. > I also have 30k of comments from Richard Stallman that need to be > incorporated. > > I would like to run this like a code development project. Basically, > people send contributions; significant contributors get CVS write access; > everyone feels free to make improvements to the tutorial. > > Anyway - please, if anyone wants to contribute, just write something up, > however short, and send it to me. I'll add it to the document if it looks > good. You don't have to do a whole chapter. Up to now I've been redirecting to you anyone willing to contribute. Whether they did that or not I don't know, but that's always up to them. > In CVS there's a file which talks about copyright issues and some > notes on formatting conventions - for now I'll put it at > http://www.debian.org/~hp/AUTHOR-INFO > > It seems like the main content of the list is me giving status reports and > telling how to contribute to a document that hasn't changed lately - I'd > like it to be discussion of the Tutorial content instead! As you write > please feel free to use this list as a development list, so progress is > visible. For some reason the list never has gotten above the "planning" stage. But I have a feeling things will change. :-) > Suggestions welcome, contributions appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Havoc Thanks, Ardo -- Ardo van Rangelrooij home email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] home page: http://www.tip.nl/users/ardo.van.rangelrooij PGP fp: 3B 1F 21 72 00 5C 3A 73 7F 72 DF D9 90 78 47 F9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
