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<volumenum>2005</volumenum>
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<issuenum>11, 12 & 13</issuenum>
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<publisher><publishername>The Linux Documentation Project</publishername></publisher>
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<pubdate>2005-03-30</pubdate>
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<title>The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News</title>
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</articleinfo>
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<sect1 id="tldp-world-news">
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<title>News in The LDP world</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>The LDP Volunteer Responsibility Descriptions</para>
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<para>David Horton started on <ulink
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url="http://www.happy-monkey.net/tldp/job-descriptions.html">TLDP Job
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Descriptions</ulink>. Currently defined are Author, Chief Coordinator,
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Document Publisher, Document Reviewer, Mirror Maintainer, News Contributor,
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News Editor and Technical Contributor. David will be further polling and
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charting out the responsibilities of all volunteers; the goal is to include
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this documentation on the TLDP site to make it clear to people who want to
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contribute to and understand the procedures of the LDP. </para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>The LDP publishing process</para>
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<para>Machtelt Garrels is working on a graphical representation of the <ulink
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url="http://tille.xalasys.com/training/tldp/images/tldp-publishing-flowchart.pdf">
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publishing process</ulink> and the <ulink
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url="http://tille.xalasys.com/training/tldp/images/tldp-maintenance-flowchart.pdf">maintenance
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flowchart</ulink> which is to be included in the <ulink
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url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/html/index.html">Author
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Guide</ulink>. She also proposed to make a flowchart of the relation between
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the job responsibilities within TLDP as an addition to David Horton's work. A
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draft of the flowchart is <ulink
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url="http://tille.xalasys.com/training/tldp/images/org-flowchart.pdf">available</ulink>.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>New German Translations</para>
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<para>Stephan Reuter has started the <ulink url="http://linux.shiningdeath.de/">Linux Archive</ulink> site, where you can find HOWTOs and other documents in German. Among the ever-growing list of translated documents:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://linux.shiningdeath.de/howto-de-preinstall_checklist.shtml">Pre-Installation-Checklist Howto</ulink></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://linux.shiningdeath.de/howto-de-linuxinstallation.shtml">Installation HOWTO</ulink></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://linux.shiningdeath.de/howto-de-lfs.shtml">Linux from Scratch</ulink></para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>TLDP Wikified Mirror</para>
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<para>Blake Benthall proposed to set up a <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?7:mss:10670:200503:iomiedbkgnnpmhgcelfk">Wikified
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mirror</ulink>. The proposal was <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:sss:9101:200503:kebchlnjcdnacjalkhnf">discussed
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at large</ulink> and Blake setup a preliminary WIKI for testing of his HTML to
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WIKI conversion scripts at the site <ulink
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url="http://tldp.sys-techs.com/wiki/index.php/Special:Allpages">http://tldp.sys-techs.com/wiki/index.php/Special:Allpages</ulink>.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="tldp-discussions">
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<title>Discussions on The LDP lists</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Modifiability of Documents</para>
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<para>Rahul Sundaram wanted to include "modifiability of documents as a
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licensing requirement" in the LDP manifesto and also <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:8594:200503:ihpahginmljdgbhooeje">suggested</ulink>
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modifying the authors guide. This led to a discussion on licensing and various
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licenses available for documentation. Emma Jane Hogbin <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:8711:200503:jklinmkmkkeoaokicenh">posted</ulink>
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changes to the authors guide and asked for suggestions and comments. The
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thread petered out and went on to discuss how Debian handles documentation and
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Emma <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:9003:200503:jklinmkmkkeoaokicenh">sent
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a mail</ulink> to the maintainers to the doc-linux and doc-linux-nonfree Debian
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packages requesting a "a succinct explanation on the distinction so that they
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[TLDP authors] may choose the best license for their document". </para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Proposed LDP Organization: Subject Specialists</para>
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<para>David Lawyer <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:9127:200503:claiepedajakajhoajgg">proposed</ulink>
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that The LDP partition the existing and expected future LDP docs into say 20-40
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categories and find a subject specialist for each category. <quote>She would
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first review all the docs on this subject. If docs were not being adequately
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maintained, she would try to find new authors. She would also try to find
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authors for areas covered by the subject but not adequately by any LDP docs.
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She would suggest mergers or splits in exiting documents. New doc proposals
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would go to the appropriate subject specialist.</quote> He said that there
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should be a subject specialist coordinator and <quote>the subject specialist
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coordinator would need to have good knowledge of all aspects of Linux and have
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time to check out the facts when disputes arose. The subject specialist
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coordinator and assistants would initially have to find people to do reviews
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for cases where there was no subject specialist to do it. The subject
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specialist coordinator might keep a list of people willing to do technical
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reviews</quote>. People in general thought that this would be a good idea and
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went on to discuss it further. </para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="new-proposed">
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<title>New document proposals</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Vikas Singhal proposed to write a Open Source Databases for
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Linux HOWTO. The document will explain installation and configuration of
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various open source databases, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MaxDB, and Firebird,
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on Linux platform. This document will also provide comparison among these
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databases. This will not be a very detailed manual but an overview and will
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provide pointers for further information. Rahul Sundaram expressed his
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interest in the document and indicated the Vikas should post his proposal and
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drafts to the discuss list. Vivek Varghese Cherian offered help with the
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document.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="updated-docs">
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<title>Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Christophe Devine took the time to update all the package version numbers in the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Encrypted-Root-Filesystem-HOWTO/">Encrypted Root Filesystem HOWTO</ulink> v1.3. The document is now also available in <ulink url="http://cvsview.tldp.org">CVS</ulink>.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Another addition to CVS is v0.9 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/BTTV/">BTTV HOWTO</ulink>. This is the first attempt at rewrite of the document, so comments are welcome!</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Mendel Cooper released v3.3 of the <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/">Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide</ulink>, which contains again lots of bug fixes and several new example scripts.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Artemiy I. Pavlov released v1.7 of his <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/SquashFS-HOWTO/">SquashFS HOWTO</ulink>, this new version has modifications in the document to cover the SquashFS release 2.1.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="tldp-mirrors">
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<title>Mirror information update</title>
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<para>The following are the latest additions to our <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/mirrors.html">list of mirrors</ulink>:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Nels Martens: <ulink url="http://www.codesrc.net/LDP">http://www.codesrc.net/LDP</ulink> in El Segundo, CA, USA and updated daily.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Yevgeniy Skrypets: <ulink url="http://ldp.tolix.org/">http://ldp.tolix.org/</ulink> in Burlingame, CA, USA and updated daily at 1am PST.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="tldp-contribute">
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<title>The LDP/LDPWN mini-HOWTO</title>
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<para><ulink url="http://tldp.org/">The Linux Documentation Project</ulink>
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(TLDP) is working on developing free, high quality documentation for the
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GNU/Linux operating system. If you want to help TLDP, consider joining
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<email>discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org</email> (a low volume discussion mailing
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list). You can also send your suggestions to
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<email>feedback@en.tldp.org</email>. </para>
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<para>The LDP Weekly News is compiled, edited and published by Machtelt Garrels
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(Tille) and Y Giridhar Appaji Nag (Giri) with help from several other people.
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To receive this newsletter weekly in your mailbox, subscribe to the
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<email>news-subscribe@en.tldp.org</email> mailing list. Back issues are
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available at <ulink url="http://tldp.org/ldpwn">http://tldp.org/ldpwn</ulink>
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</para>
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<para>Help us create this newsletter. We need volunteers who follow the
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community (mailing lists, newsgroups, web channels) and report events related
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to free software documentation. Write to us at
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<email>feedback@en.tldp.org</email>. </para>
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</sect1>
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</article>
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