Re: [Lindows-doc-discuss] Starting up LDP again

[James L. <lin...@ne...>]

ke...@pa... wrote:

>Hi Everyone,
>
>I know it's been a long while!
>
>I would like to get the Linux Documentation Project going again. 
>
Sounds good!

>I saw the file that James sent and I'm going to try to add them to our
>Sourceforge project site (https://sourceforge.net/projects/lindows-doc)
>as downloads.
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The latest version is orphaned over at 
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/automagic.  The document project has 
two documents. The first one is strictly a simple compilation of all the 
hints and tips up to the feature freeze date.  The second set is an in 
progress rearrranging of those hints and tips into an outline at the top 
of the file.  For now, its pretty much a bunch of cut and paste jobs, 
until its ready for the next stage, testing to verify that the 
procedures still work in the current version of Lindows.


>I've also set up a Wiki here:
>
>http://lindows-doc.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/
>
I haven't looked at the wiki yet, and I liked the idea when used to 
accumulate the raw data, much like the Hint and Tips are raw data.
The good thing about the hints and tips is that they cannot change, but 
people can comment on the tip, and these comments generally tend to 
improve the quality of the original hint and tip.  My raw data document 
is missing these comments, but they can be merged in concisely during 
the editing stage.

It is also very important that we have the doc project data in a format 
that can easily become other formats while at the same time, not 
becoming 30 MB pieces of bloat common to .doc files. Not everybody has 
broadband. LyX fits the bill perfectly. LyX works just like MS Word, the 
only difference is that you can easily mark headings and create a table 
of contents out of it.  Further, LyX will create html documents i 
conformity with Docbook and Linuxdoc standards commonly used by the 
Linux community.

My hesitancre about using the Wiki as a final product for several 
reasons reasons ranging anywhere from vandalism to a lack of 
understanding and a dash of stubbornness.

If its a member of the project, or even a staffer at Lindows.com, I am 
perfectly comfortable with them or us being able to make changes, but 
not anybody that happens to come our way.

So, whoever picks up the torch from here, will have to be given a final 
say as to what gets included and what does not. I also hope that that 
person will consider Lindows.com's input to be a very high consideration 
in the decision making process as I hope that they would want to offer 
our doc as a user manual.

However, we should also keep in mind that LyX stores its documents in a 
non proprietary format that can be easily be edited by Lindows.com, if 
there is some content that the maintainer and Lindows.com forks on.


>
>Please have a look and add anything you want to add.
>
Whoooa! let me have a look at what's goin on with the Wiki...

> I'm going to be
>working on it too. Let me know what you think.
>
>Best regards,
>
>
>Kendall
>
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>
JL

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