terry wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:
t> 1> The LDP may decide it is no longer to be a HOWTO no matter how
t> much you'd like it to be.
The LDP is unlikely to revoke HOWTO status for something that has been in as
long as the HAM HOWTO, as long as it has a maintainer. They might be more
selective about new additions, but we get a lot of benefit from inertia.
t> 2> The hardcopy books are now getting too large and recent
t> editions have chosen not to publish a large number of HOWTO
t> documents, the HAM-HOWTO is one of those.
We're still in Yggdrasil's "Linux Bible," but not in Red Hat's competitor.
t> The authoring process is a pain in the butt to do
t> collaboratively. Tools like CVS make it less painful but are
t> probably beyond the reach of many amateur radio operators.
I think getting anything more than updates from software authors is
unrealistic, and that the work is going to land on someone -- who until now has
been you.
t> My thinking extended more to having a web based submission form
t> for software authors and users to submit/update entries to the
t> database.
As I said in an earlier message, I think this could be knocked off in an hour
or two as a Perl application that processed e-mail, and that a web form could
be trivially written to format and send that e-mail. The "database" could
consist of flat text files. Am I missing something?
-- Mike
