I would suggest we either kill or take steps to kill a number of unmaintained manuals. I'm starting with manuals which are obsoleted, I suspect, by debian-reference, which seems like the flag-bearer right now for user/sysadmin information.
I know I am not being diplomatic and "correct" here -- but it's worse to have a DDP area which is mostly a graveyard of dead manuals. I feel it's better to have one maintained manual that 4 unmaintained manuals. So -- I don't mean to disrespect anyone's efforts. I'd just like to clean up some dead stuff which is unmaintained and focus our efforts in a single place. My interests are in better docs for our users, a sustainable DDP, and a clear place to go for contributors, translators, etc. Below I list a number of manuals which may or may not candidates for merging into debian-reference and then eliminating. Please do shout out loudly if one of the following manuals should *not* be so integrated for some reason. For baseline, debian-reference figures: Last significant update: 2003-02-24 Num. lines changed since 2002-01-01: 11499 (not counting removed files) Translations: DE, ES, FR, IT, PT * tutorial Last significant update: 1999-02-26 Num. lines changed since 2002-01-01: 0 Num. lines changed since 2002-01-01: 0 Translations: FR, ES Pretty clearly obsolete and no longer maintained. Suggest we review it for anything that might be sensibly added to debian-reference and then 'cvs rm' it. * user Last significant update: 2002-03-28 Num. lines changed since 2002-01-01: 70 Num. lines changed since 2001-01-01: 122 Translations: none Most of it is just outline/draft. Suggest we review it for anything that might be sensibly added to debian-reference and then 'cvs rm' it. * debian-guide (package, not in CVS) Last significant update: 1999-08-06 Num. lines changed since 2002-01-01: 0 Num. lines changed since 2001-01-01: 0 Translations: none Unmaintained, is seems to overlap with debian-reference, does it have anything to offer not in that document? * system-administrator Last significant update: 2002-09-27 Num. lines changed since 2002-01-01: 7 Num. lines changed since 2001-01-01: 22 Translations: none (one file in RU) Seems to overlap with debian-reference, only had two content commits in 2002, and only a translation was adding all of 2001. Probably has some contents which could be integrated in debian-reference. * network-administrator Last significant update: 2002-12-07 Num. lines changed since 2002-01-01: 146 Num. lines changed since 2001-01-01: 146 Translations: ES, RU Only two content commits in 2002, one in 2001, 2 in 2000. Suggest we see if rkrusty is amenable to working with debian-reference instead. -- ...Adam Di Carlo...<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.......<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
