Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 19:35:24 -0300 From: Jorge Godoy <godoy@conectiva.com> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: discuss@linuxdoc.org, rhayden@apple.com, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposing some new HOWTOs Message-ID: <conectiva-linux.m3bsjxinrn.fsf@godoy.laptop> In-Reply-To: <20010926131500.T31744@clan.nothing-going-on.org> (Nik Clayton's message of "Wed, 26 Sep 2001 13:15:01 %2B0100") 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> <20010926131500.T31744@clan.nothing-going-on.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> writes: > I've been talking with the folks at Darwin about setting up a Excuse me for my ignorance, but what's 'Darwin'? Any FreeBSD team? > 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. That's OK. Just minimal stylesheet customization would handle that easily. > 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. That's what I was thinking about. These generic guidelines, internet behaviour, theoretical documents, etc. are perfect for sharing among several projects. Having them together is "a good thing"(tm). My fear is that things come to and end as OSWG. OSWG wasn't OS specific and it simply vanished. > 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. Aren't we all working more than we used too? :-P > [ Plug: Skilled SGML / XML / XSLT / Perl / C Unix hacker for hire. > Preference for working on Open Source projects. ] <joke> :o)) If somebody has more money to spend, and doesn't know what to do with it, I'd like to get some too. >:o) </joke> OK... Nik needs it more than I do... Hire him. ;-) > 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. I am interested, but I can't assume another project. I can see that we have some net resources, thought. And I'd like to contribute to it. See you, -- Godoy. <godoy@conectiva.com> Solutions Developer - Conectiva Inc. - http://en.conectiva.com Desenvolvedor de Soluções - Conectiva S.A. - http://www.conectiva.com.br [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7slgsEzC+baSjBiURAiltAJ4jYaDtQu+IX4SgVMsnq7dgk1JDiACgg8XP wi6ZvwynamydXnnMNSejQUE= =Il2v -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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