Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 13:14:28 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: FreeBSD Documenters <doc@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Robert A. Bruce" <rab@cdrom.com> Subject: Re: Publishing the FreeBSD handbook Message-ID: <19990412131428.K2142@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <44584.923888317@zippy.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 08:38:37PM -0700 References: <19990412125145.J2142@lemis.com> <44584.923888317@zippy.cdrom.com>
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On Sunday, 11 April 1999 at 20:38:37 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> Walnut Creek are planning to make a printed version of the FreeBSD >> handbook. This is something about which Walnut Creek and myself drew >> up a contract some years ago, when I first got involved with writing >> documentation for FreeBSD, so I'll be heading this particular effort. > > Actually, Nik Clayton is already heading this particular effort so > please work with him rather than going off on your own tangent or > something. By all means, whip the volunteers into a frenzy of > contributions if you think you can do so, but also realize that the > ultimate responsibility for the handbook and its organzation lies with > Nik and you can't just step into -doc and start a parallel effort > without stomping all over his toes and most of his feet. > > Don't get me wrong, I'm also happy to see you working more out in the > open rather than doing another totally independent effort in troff or > something, but we just got Nik signed up and "in harness" as the new > Docmeister and anything involve the Handbook simply has to go through > him or we're in for a world of confusion. I've already communicated > as much to Walnut Creek / Bob Bruce and would be happy to see you > working with Nik to improve the handbook just so long as "with" is the > operative preposition. > > If I've also read too much into this message and that's already > exactly what you have in mind (Nik driving the task list and Nik > totally behind this most recent "push") then please just ignore this > message as excessive paranoia on my part. It looks like excessive paranoia. I've already contacted him and explained the background, and we're in sync. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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