Re: [Mailman-Developers] Documentation status?

2008-03-13 Thread Jason Pruim
On Mar 11, 2008, at 10:59 PM, Terri Oda wrote: On 11-Mar-08, at 11:00 AM, Jason Pruim wrote: I like this style when you have a smaller number of questions, but there are probably over 200 entries in the the Mailman FAQ. I think putting them all on one page is less than ideal: (a) It

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Documentation status?

2008-03-11 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mar 11, 2008, at 1:37 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: That is correct. There were a few isinstance(something, str) calls in HTMLFormatter.py and htmlformat.py that I added in 2.1.9. They're still there, and I don't know what other things I may have

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Documentation status?

2008-03-11 Thread Terri Oda
On 11-Mar-08, at 11:00 AM, Jason Pruim wrote: I can work on that... I already have a wiki account, and it looks like I can edit pages... I would like to get some opinions on how to do the FAQ's... I have some for my company website (Not related to mailman) but what I did was a list of

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Documentation status?

2008-03-11 Thread Jason Pruim
On Mar 11, 2008, at 12:44 AM, Terri Oda wrote: On 6-Mar-08, at 2:18 PM, Jason Pruim wrote: I've been watching this thread with interest and would like to help where I can... I don't know Python, so I can't exactly help program, but I've been told I can translate technological info into

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Documentation status?

2008-03-10 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mar 7, 2008, at 1:03 PM, A.M. Kuchling wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 10:49:08AM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: I think the GFDL would probably be more appropriate: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#FDL I'm not as well versed on this license; what do people think about that? The

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Documentation status?

2008-03-10 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mar 8, 2008, at 12:34 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: OTOH, the only real advantage to GFDL is that we can borrow from other GFDLed docs. Do we want to do that? YAGNI. Since our docs are already GPL'd, unless there's a reason to switch or

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Documentation status?

2008-03-10 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mar 10, 2008, at 11:41 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~amk/mailman/small-fixes I'll take a look tonight unless Mark beats me to it. Actually, I found a few minutes to review this. The branch looks good, +1 for

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Documentation status?

2008-03-10 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Friday 7 March 2008 19:03, A.M. Kuchling wrote: The major issue with the GFDL is that for a while, Debian considered it to be a non-free license.  I think the current status is that Debian now considers GFDL-licensed docs with no unmodifiable sections to be free, so we shouldn't have any

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Documentation status?

2008-03-10 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:11:29PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: Actually, I found a few minutes to review this. The branch looks good, +1 for merging it to 2.1. Should I do a push to the 2.1 branch, or will you or Mark pull it into 2.1? (I think I have commit privileges at this point, but I'm

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Documentation status?

2008-03-10 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mar 10, 2008, at 1:03 PM, A.M. Kuchling wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:11:29PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: Actually, I found a few minutes to review this. The branch looks good, +1 for merging it to 2.1. Should I do a push to the 2.1

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Documentation status?

2008-03-10 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Barry Warsaw writes: YAGNI. Since our docs are already GPL'd, unless there's a reason to switch or dual license that overrides the hassle, let's just stick to GPL. Yay! Another victory for the Sanity in Free Software movement! ___

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Documentation status?

2008-03-10 Thread Mark Sapiro
A.M. Kuchling wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:11:29PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: Actually, I found a few minutes to review this. The branch looks good, +1 for merging it to 2.1. Should I do a push to the 2.1 branch, or will you or Mark pull it into 2.1? (I think I have commit privileges

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Documentation status?

2008-03-10 Thread Terri Oda
On 6-Mar-08, at 2:18 PM, Jason Pruim wrote: I've been watching this thread with interest and would like to help where I can... I don't know Python, so I can't exactly help program, but I've been told I can translate technological info into something the normal person could understand. So what

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Documentation status?

2008-03-10 Thread Mark Sapiro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Barry Warsaw wrote: | On Mar 7, 2008, at 1:03 PM, A.M. Kuchling wrote: | | * The README says Python 2.1 or later is required, but it looks like |Python 2.3 is actually needed these days. | | Yep. Mark, correct me if I'm wrong but I don't believe

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Documentation status?

2008-03-07 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mar 6, 2008, at 3:20 AM, Terri Oda wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5-Mar-08, at 5:26 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: I like having docs in the wiki because it lets more people contribute. The downside is that you can't reach

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Documentation status?

2008-03-07 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 10:49:08AM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: I think the GFDL would probably be more appropriate: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#FDL I'm not as well versed on this license; what do people think about that? The major issue with the GFDL is that for a while, Debian

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Documentation status?

2008-03-07 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Barry Warsaw writes: I think the GFDL would probably be more appropriate: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#FDL I'm not as well versed on this license; what do people think about that? Gratuitous license proliferation about sums it up. The big problem with GFDL is that it

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Documentation status?

2008-03-06 Thread Terri Oda
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5-Mar-08, at 5:26 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: I like having docs in the wiki because it lets more people contribute. The downside is that you can't reach it when you're offline and it's harder to publish in alternative media. Have you thought at

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Documentation status?

2008-03-06 Thread Jason Pruim
On Mar 6, 2008, at 3:20 AM, Terri Oda wrote: Other docs I want to see in the wiki: In my perfect world, I'd like to see us port all of our FAQ items to the documentation part of the wiki, so all of these things could be found in one place and thus easily searchable in one go. Any

[Mailman-Developers] Documentation status?

2008-03-05 Thread A.M. Kuchling
What's the status of the Mailman documentation, and where is the master copy now? The LaTeX source for the docs isn't in the Bazaar repository, beyond a copy in the Japanese translation (./messages/ja/doc/mailman-member.tex). The wiki page at

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Documentation status?

2008-03-05 Thread Terri Oda
On 5-Mar-08, at 2:53 PM, A.M. Kuchling wrote: What's the status of the Mailman documentation, and where is the master copy now? The LaTeX source for the docs isn't in the Bazaar repository, beyond a copy in the Japanese translation (./messages/ja/doc/mailman-member.tex). The wiki page at

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Documentation status?

2008-03-05 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 03:53:21PM -0500, Terri Oda wrote: The master latex file is probably the one on my hard drive/checked into source control (uhh, it was in svn, but it might not have made it to bazaar, in which case, that's my bad and I'll see what I can do), ... Thanks! Looking

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Documentation status?

2008-03-05 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mar 5, 2008, at 2:53 PM, A.M. Kuchling wrote: What's the status of the Mailman documentation, and where is the master copy now? Hi Andrew, The masters are in Bazaar but they're not in the main code repository. I split them off, along with

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Documentation status?

2008-03-05 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mar 5, 2008, at 3:53 PM, Terri Oda wrote: I should probably finish writing the docs, but I'm currently hampered by a cyst in my right hand that makes it fairly hard to type right now, so it's kinda limited my ability to participate in much