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>Unmaintained and Out-of-date Documents</TITLE
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TITLE="Writing Your Proposal"
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NAME="unmaintained"
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>3.3. Unmaintained and Out-of-date Documents</H1
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> If you wish to become the <SPAN
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>"owner"</SPAN
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> for an unmaintained document there are
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several steps you must go through.
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> Contact the author. Make sure the author no longer
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wishes to maintain the document in question. Note that the E-mail address
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shown may no longer be valid. In that case, try a <A
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HREF="http://google.com"
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TARGET="_top"
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>search</A
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> for the
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author. If the original author of a document cannot be found after a <SPAN
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CLASS="QUOTE"
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>"good-faith"</SPAN
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> effort,
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let us know (<TT
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HREF="mailto:discuss@en.tldp.org"
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>discuss@en.tldp.org</A
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>--<A
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HREF="http://tldp.org/mailinfo.html#maillists"
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TARGET="_top"
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>subscription
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required</A
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>).
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</P
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> Determine if a more up-to-date copy of the document exists, outside
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of what is available on the LDP. If so, try to secure a copy for yourself
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to work on.
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</P
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> Inform the LDP which document you would like to maintain, so that we can
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track who is working on what and prevent duplication of effort. We also
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suggest that you join the LDP general discussion list
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(<TT
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>). This step is also required for new
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documents.
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Submit the document to the LDP with any intended modifications. Make
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sure to continue to reference the original author somewhere within the
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document (Credits, Revision History, etc.). Once the document is
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re-submitted, we will remove the entry from the list of unmaintained
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documents.
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</P
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>Some of unmaintained documents may be outdated, or the content may be
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covered in another (actively maintained) HOWTO. If that is the situation,
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contact us (preferably on the discuss mailing list) and let us know.</P
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>Scope of Your Document</TD
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