On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 12:10 +0000, Joachim Noreiko wrote: > But beyond that, what is the plan for the user guide? > I spoke to Brent on IRC who said Shaun has a plan to > rewrite the guide from scratch so it can be under a > different licence. (Ironic that the GFDL is rubbish > for Gnome user docs, really.)
Doh, if a rewrite is planned I might have started contributing somewhere else :-O No matter. Are the troubles with the GFDL so bad that we need a rewrite ? It would seem like a lot of work when we seem to have trouble maintaining things as is... Has anybody asked the copyright holders if they wouldn't mind releasing under a new license ? I don't see what SUN would gain from refusing. We could maybe ask them through their people who work on GNOME... Who else holds copyright on this ? How would you rewrite things such as "how to create a new folder" whilst respecting the GDP style guide without writing the exact same thing we already have ? > I'd like to do a fair bit of reorganizing of the > guide, first of all on the user-visible side, and > after the 2.14 release on the CVS side and clean up > all the old crap in there. But is it worth it if we're > planning to rewrite it all? I'd say a cleanup would be nice. > Also, when's a good time to catch people on IRC? The > place is tumbleweed. It would be helpful if people > used their nick to say whether they are actually there > or not. Or maybe just switched their PCs off while > they're asleep??? I also sometimes wonder if I am talking to nobody. Are there any logs for the docs channel ? Love, Karderio _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
