From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Sep 26 5:22:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (pc-62-31-42-140-hy.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.42.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A4DB37B416; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 05:22:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f8QCF1m58362; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 13:15:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 13:15:01 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Jorge Godoy Cc: Nik Clayton , discuss@linuxdoc.org, rhayden@apple.com, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposing some new HOWTOs Message-ID: <20010926131500.T31744@clan.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20010921142307.T1162@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20010921210756.G23778@lupercalia.net> <20010924002535.D1162@clan.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+Yg8W10oK6rlW0RR" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from godoy@conectiva.com on Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 09:14:54PM -0300 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --+Yg8W10oK6rlW0RR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [ 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 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. >=20 > I'd like to see it become true.=20 >=20 > I'm saying that without thinking too much, but I don't see any big > problems with having a huge repository.=20 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 ... ... 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. =20 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 --=20 FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- --+Yg8W10oK6rlW0RR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjuxxsQACgkQk6gHZCw343WpfQCfVq/bB4gIHELUDVhYR2/H9cpM z1gAn25UbNgYXF90fiqbdiaV1KQvsSck =uq8C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+Yg8W10oK6rlW0RR-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message