From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Apr 11 20:46:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EB211528D for ; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 20:46:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA08197; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 13:14:30 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id NAA69389; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 13:14:29 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990412131428.K2142@lemis.com> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 13:14:28 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: FreeBSD Documenters , "Robert A. Bruce" Subject: Re: Publishing the FreeBSD handbook References: <19990412125145.J2142@lemis.com> <44584.923888317@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <44584.923888317@zippy.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 08:38:37PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sunday, 11 April 1999 at 20:38:37 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> Walnut Creek are planning to make a printed version of the FreeBSD >> handbook. This is something about which Walnut Creek and myself drew >> up a contract some years ago, when I first got involved with writing >> documentation for FreeBSD, so I'll be heading this particular effort. > > Actually, Nik Clayton is already heading this particular effort so > please work with him rather than going off on your own tangent or > something. By all means, whip the volunteers into a frenzy of > contributions if you think you can do so, but also realize that the > ultimate responsibility for the handbook and its organzation lies with > Nik and you can't just step into -doc and start a parallel effort > without stomping all over his toes and most of his feet. > > Don't get me wrong, I'm also happy to see you working more out in the > open rather than doing another totally independent effort in troff or > something, but we just got Nik signed up and "in harness" as the new > Docmeister and anything involve the Handbook simply has to go through > him or we're in for a world of confusion. I've already communicated > as much to Walnut Creek / Bob Bruce and would be happy to see you > working with Nik to improve the handbook just so long as "with" is the > operative preposition. > > If I've also read too much into this message and that's already > exactly what you have in mind (Nik driving the task list and Nik > totally behind this most recent "push") then please just ignore this > message as excessive paranoia on my part. It looks like excessive paranoia. I've already contacted him and explained the background, and we're in sync. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message