Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 13:15:01 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Jorge Godoy <godoy@conectiva.com> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>, discuss@linuxdoc.org, rhayden@apple.com, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposing some new HOWTOs Message-ID: <20010926131500.T31744@clan.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <conectiva-linux.m3pu8hh2bl.fsf@godoy.laptop>; from godoy@conectiva.com on Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 09:14:54PM -0300 References: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0109171124120.2819-100000@sm.starcomsoftware.com> <20010921142307.T1162@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20010921210756.G23778@lupercalia.net> <20010924002535.D1162@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <conectiva-linux.m3pu8hh2bl.fsf@godoy.laptop>
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[ Copying Ron Hayden at Apple about this, and the FreeBSD Doc. Project ]
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 09:14:54PM -0300, Jorge Godoy wrote:
> Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> writes:
> > Would the LDP be interested in assisting on a pan-Unix documentation
> > effort? While there are certainly documents that are specific to an OS
> > (tuning, kernel configuration, that sort of thing) there are many that
> > aren't, or that have only a few sections that are OS specific.
>
> I'd like to see it become true.
>
> I'm saying that without thinking too much, but I don't see any big
> problems with having a huge repository.
I've been talking with the folks at Darwin about setting up a
documentation repository that would contain documentation that is either
truly cross-platform, or that has a minimum of OS-specific content --
the sort of thing that can be handled with
<para os="linux">...</para>
<para os="freebsd">...</para>
and so forth.
I don't expect that every documentation project's documentation would
move there (there's a lot of FreeBSD doc. proj. stuff that's totally
FreeBSD specific) but things like "Unix basics", "How to write a man
page", and so on would go here.
So far, the discussions on this with the Darwin folk have stalled. That
is completely my fault -- my free cycles went out the window practically
as soon as I got back from the US, and I've been working on things that
pay the mortgage ever since.
[ Plug: Skilled SGML / XML / XSLT / Perl / C Unix hacker for hire.
Preference for working on Open Source projects. ]
I don't want this to stumble just because I haven't got the time to
work on its inception, so I'm sending this in the hope that interested
parties can take this further.
N
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