Hi, On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 09:03:48PM -0400, Lee Winter wrote: > Dear Debian Documentation, > > The present state of debian documentation is quite depressing. It slows me > down and that is frustrating. I would like to help.
Please. > So I make the following offer: > > In exchange for certain information that ought to be in the documentation, > but is not (AFAICT), I will do two things: I do not understand "exchange" part. If this is "In light of certain ...", then I agree. > 1. Write up the information i seek in a clear and concise form so that it > is available for use by the community. Please. These days, that happens in two ways: * patch proposed to current document. * new content added to wiki.debian.org > 2. Create a link farm mechanism with broken link detection to make (some) > sense of the voluminous debian-related, information that is scattered around > the internet . We have quite a bit of it in terms of code. We lack volunteer time to update such broken link. We run broken link detection code by hand. Not so regulary. You see "url-check" target for debian-reference (quick-reference in SVN) for example. You can always run it and report bug report. > The goal of that effort would be to perform and automate the > research necessary to the construction AND MAINTENANCE of reasonable quality > documentation for the distribution. I try. Your help is appreciated. > If there are not enough writers to > utilize the resource once constructed it would be a suitable for > construction of an automated debian knowledge-base. Hmmm.... I do not understand. I do not think we need to create search engin for debian related infrmation. ... Or I should say our time is better spend if we polish existing documents (both ddp and wiki.) > Please let me know your level of interest in this offer. Debian is volunteer project. Any positive contribution are welcomed. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
