From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jul 25 5:31:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B78BD37BD20; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 05:31:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA13130; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 13:30:22 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 13:30:22 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: "Ogren, Eric C." Cc: "'Nik Clayton'" , Eric Ogren , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Page for doc contributors? Message-ID: <20000725133022.B12969@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from ecogren@rsasecurity.com on Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 03:12:41PM -0400 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 03:12:41PM -0400, Ogren, Eric C. wrote: > OK. I got the impression from a thread a couple of months ago (whose > name I can't remember) that we were trying to reduce/remove all of > those intro blurbs. If that's not the case, then nevermind. :) We are, but we're trying to replace it with the correct DocBook markup so the 'blurb' can be generated (or supressed, or used to generate a big "Table of contributors") automatically. Sadly, I haven't written the DSSSL to do this (Formatting Barbie: DSSSL is hard), and neither has anyone else. . . > This does still leave the FAQ though; do we want to include > "This question submitted by X" at the bottom of a bunch of questions > if somebody puts it there (I don't know if anybody does this or not), I'd really rather not. I'm still somewhat put out by dcs' insistence on a 'copyright' notice on the "How many committers does it take to screw in a lightbulb" question in there. Speaking of which, does anyone want to go out and do an indepth look at the various 'open source' documentation licenses out there? N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message