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+ + 2005 + 11, 12 & 13 + The Linux Documentation Project + 2005-03-30 + The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News + + + + +New document proposals + + + +Vikas Singhal proposed to write a Open Source Databases for +Linux HOWTO. The document will explain installation and configuration of +various open source databases, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MaxDB, and Firebird, +on Linux platform. This document will also provide comparison among these +databases. This will not be a very detailed manual but an overview and will +provide pointers for further information. Rahul Sundaram expressed his +interest in the document and indicated the Vikas should post his proposal and +drafts to the discuss list. Vivek Varghese Cherian offered help with the +document. + + + + + + +Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides + + + +Christophe Devine took the time to update all the package version numbers in the Encrypted Root Filesystem HOWTO v1.3. The document is now also available in CVS. + +Another addition to CVS is v0.9 of the BTTV HOWTO. This is the first attempt at rewrite of the document, so comments are welcome! + +Mendel Cooper released v3.3 of the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide, which contains again lots of bugfixes and several new example scripts. + +Artemiy I. Pavlov released v1.7 of his SquashFS HOWTO, this new version has modifications in the document to cover the SquashFS release 2.1. + + + + + + +News in The LDP world + + + + + +The LDP Volunteer Responsibility Descriptions + +David Horton started on TLDP Job +Descriptions. Currently defined are Author, Chief Coordinator, +Document Publisher, Document Reviewer, Mirror Maintainer, News Contributor, +News Editor and Technical Contributor. David will be further polling and +charting out the responsabilities of all volunteers; the goal is to include +this documentation on the TLDP site to make it clear to people who want to +contribute to and understand the procedures of the LDP. + + + + + +The LDP publishing process + +Machtelt Garrels is working on a graphical representation of the +publishing process and the maintenance +flowchart which is to be included in the Author +Guide. She also proposed to make a flowchart of the relation between +the job responsabilities within TLDP as an addition to David Horton's work. A +draft of the flowchart is available. + + + + + + +New German Translations + +Stephan Reuter has started the Linux Archiv site, where you can find HOWTOs and other documents in German. Among the ever-growing list of translated documents: + + Pre-Installation-Checklist Howto + Installation HOWTO + Linux from Scratch + + + + + + +TLDP Wikified Mirror + +Blake Benthall proposed to set up a Wikified +mirror. The proposal was discussed +at large and Blake setup a preliminary WIKI for testing of his HTML to +WIKI conversion scripts at the site http://tldp.sys-techs.com/wiki/index.php/Special:Allpages. + + + + + + + + + +Discussions on The LDP lists + + + + + +Modifiability of Documents + +Rahul Sundaram wanted to include "modifiability of documents as a +licensing requirement" in the LDP manifesto and also suggested +modifying the authors guide. This led to a discussion on licensing and various +licenses available for documentation. Emma Jane Hogbin posted +changes to the authors guide and asked for suggestions and comments. The +thread petered out and went on to discuss how Debian handles documentation and +Emma sent +a mail to the maintainers to the doc-linux and doc-linux-nonfree Debian +packages requesting a "a succinct explanation on the distinction so that they +[TLDP authors] may choose the best license for their document". + + + + + +Proposed LDP Organization: Subject Specialists + +David Lawyer proposed +that The LDP partition the existing and expected future LDP docs into say 20-40 +categories and find a subject specialist for each category. She would +first review all the docs on this subject. If docs were not being adequately +maintained, she would try to find new authors. She would also try to find +authors for areas covered by the subject but not adequately by any LDP docs. +She would suggest mergers or splits in exiting documents. New doc proposals +would go the the appropriate subject specialist. He said that there +should be a subject specialist coordinator and the subject specialist +coordinator would need to have good knowledge of all aspects of Linux and have +time to check out the facts when disputes arose. The subject specialist +coordinator and assistants would initially have to find people to do reviews +for cases where there was no subject specialist to do it. The subject +specialist coordinator might keep a list of people willing to do technical +reviews. People in general thought that this would be a good idea and +went on to discuss it further. + + + + + + + + +Mirror information update + +The following are the latest additions to our list of mirrors: + + + +Nels Martens: http://www.codesrc.net/LDP in El Segundo, CA, USA and updated daily. +Yevgeniy Skrypets: http://ldp.tolix.org/ in Burlingame, CA, USA and updated daily at 1am PST. + + + + + + +The LDP/LDPWN mini-HOWTO + +The Linux Documentation Project +(TLDP) is working on developing free, high quality documentation for the +GNU/Linux operating system. If you want to help TLDP, consider joining +discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org (a low volume discussion mailing +list). You can also send your suggestions to +feedback@en.tldp.org. + +The LDP Weekly News is compiled, edited and published by Machtelt Garrels +(Tille) and Y Giridhar Appaji Nag (Giri) with help from several other people. +To receive this newsletter weekly in your mailbox, subscribe to the +news-subscribe@en.tldp.org mailing list. Back issues are available at +http://tldp.org/ldpwn. + +Help us create this newsletter. We need volunteers who follow the +community (mailing lists, newsgroups, web channels) and report events related +to free software documentation. Write to us at +feedback@en.tldp.org. + + + +