From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Sep 26 15:32:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from stratus.swi.com.br (stratus.swi.com.br [200.203.204.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDCEF37B41F; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 15:32:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dagon.conectiva (1-069.ctame701-5.telepar.net.br [200.181.178.69]) by stratus.swi.com.br (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f8QMSRQ15999; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 19:28:30 -0300 Posted-Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 19:28:30 -0300 X-Local-Destination: nik@freebsd.org X-Local-Origin: godoy@conectiva.com X-Gateway: Speedway Internet Service http://www.swi.com.br Received: by dagon.conectiva (Postfix, from userid 500) id 51194271FF; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 19:35:26 -0300 (BRT) To: Nik Clayton Cc: discuss@linuxdoc.org, rhayden@apple.com, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposing some new HOWTOs References: <20010921142307.T1162@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20010921210756.G23778@lupercalia.net> <20010924002535.D1162@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20010926131500.T31744@clan.nothing-going-on.org> X-URL: X-Disclaimer: Unless explicitly stated, opinions on this message are strictly mine From: Jorge Godoy In-Reply-To: <20010926131500.T31744@clan.nothing-going-on.org> (Nik Clayton's message of "Wed, 26 Sep 2001 13:15:01 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.103 Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 19:35:24 -0300 Message-ID: Lines: 65 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" 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 --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Nik Clayton 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?=20 > 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. That's OK. Just minimal stylesheet customization would handle that easily.=20 > 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).=20 My fear is that things come to and end as OSWG. OSWG wasn't OS specific and it simply vanished.=20 > 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.=20=20 > Preference for working on Open Source projects. ] :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)=20 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, =2D-=20 Godoy. Solutions Developer - Conectiva Inc. - http://en.conectiva.com Desenvolvedor de Solu=E7=F5es - Conectiva S.A. - http://www.conectiva.com.br --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----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----- --=-=-=-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message