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  <volumenum>2005</volumenum>
  <issuenum>17</issuenum>
  <publisher><publishername>The Linux Documentation Project</publishername></publisher>
  <pubdate>2005-03-27</pubdate>
  <title>The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News</title>
</articleinfo>

<sect1 id="tldp-world-news">
<title>News in The LDP world</title>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem>

<para>TLDP Process Flowcharts</para>

<para>Machtelt Garrels updated The <ulink
url="http://tille.xalasys.com/training/tldp/flowcharts.php">LDP process
flowcharts</ulink> based on the comments that she received from various
peopled who looked at the earlier versions. </para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>IPMI on Linux HOWTO</para>

<para>In case you are looking for Tim Small's IPMI on Linux HOWTO at
<ulink
url="http://buttersideup.com/docs/howto/IPMI_on_Debian.html">http://buttersideup.com/docs/howto/IPMI_on_Debian.html</ulink>
but cannot get the document, Greg Ferguson has uploaded a copy to <ulink
url="http://ibiblio.org/gferg/ldp/IPMI_on_Debian.html">http://ibiblio.org/gferg/ldp/IPMI_on_Debian.html</ulink>.
Review comments on the document may be sent to Tim Small.  </para>

</listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="tldp-discussions">
<title>Discussions on The LDP lists</title>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem>

<para>Understanding The Linux Kernel Initcall Mechanism</para>

<para>Machtelt Garrels, in response to an email on the
<email>feedback@en.tldp.org</email> mailing list, wrote to Trevor
Woerner asking him if he was interested in contributing a document that
he wrote to The LDP and explained the process of submission.  Trevor
responded with pointers to his work <ulink
url="http://geek.vtnet.ca/docs.html">http://geek.vtnet.ca/docs.html</ulink>,
<ulink
url="http://geek.vtnet.ca/doc/initcall/index.html">http://geek.vtnet.ca/doc/initcall/index.html</ulink>
and <ulink
url="http://geek.vtnet.ca/doc/initcall/initcall.tar.bz2">http://geek.vtnet.ca/doc/initcall/initcall.tar.bz2</ulink>.
Rahul Sundaram posted his comments on the draft version, and Trevor
indicated that he would post a revised version shortly.  Machtelt
indicated that being proactive and inviting authors to LDP is probably a
good thing to do.  </para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Bug Reporting System For The LDP?</para>

<para>Stein Gjoen pointed out that Tim Small did not get any feedback on
his IPMI on Linux (specifically Debian) HOWTO at <ulink
url="http://buttersideup.com/docs/howto/IPMI_on_Debian.html">http://buttersideup.com/docs/howto/IPMI_on_Debian.html</ulink>.
Stein suggested a few improvements to the LDP process to not let
proposals slip by.  Y Giridhar Appaji Nag said that the process would be
easy if The LDP had a bug tracking system.  </para>

</listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="updated-docs">
<title>Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</title>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para>Ian Hakes and Rory Hinton's <ulink
url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/DB2-HOWTO/">DB2 Universe Database Version 8.2
for Linux HOWTO</ulink> has been updated to v1.1.3.  In this version,
they added Red Hat Enterprise 4 instructions and corrected minor
cross-reference link issues. </para></listitem>

<listitem><para>David Horton's <ulink
url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Pocket-Linux-Guide/html/">Pocket Linux
Guide</ulink> has been updated to v3.1 with minor clarifications and
spelling corrections. </para></listitem>

<listitem><para>The Linux Professional Institute / Sheldon Rose's <ulink
url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Media-Guide/html/">Guide to Managing Media and Public Relations in the Linux
Community</ulink> has been updated to v1.1 to correct links and
update the copyright notice.  </para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="tldp-mirrors">
<title>Mirror information update</title>

<para>The following are the latest additions to our <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/mirrors.html">list of mirrors</ulink>:</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para><ulink
url="http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/ldp/">http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/ldp/</ulink>
and <ulink
url="ftp://mirrors.dotsrc.org/ldp/">ftp://mirrors.dotsrc.org/ldp/</ulink>
maintained by mirror@dotsrc.org in Aalborg, Denmark and updated daily.
This is the result of a re-organization at sunsite.dk, with them being
called as dotsrc.org now and moving to newer (and more) servers.
</para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="tldp-contribute">
<title>The LDP/LDPWN mini-HOWTO</title>

<para><ulink url="http://tldp.org/">The Linux Documentation Project</ulink>
(TLDP) is working on developing free, high quality documentation for the
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list).  You can also send your suggestions to
<email>feedback@en.tldp.org</email>.  </para>

<para>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.
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