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From: Daneel Yaitskov on 15 Jul 2008 15:04 Hi, I would like to interest what rules exists for the search of the howto maintainers. The problem is the old howtoes which don't update contain the invalid e-mails of the authors. They long has changed. The google gives nothing. I have found the mistaken in the PPP-howto and I would say to the author about it. If you knows about a maillist, answer to me. Daneel
From: Jan Kandziora on 15 Jul 2008 15:34 Daneel Yaitskov schrieb: > I would like to interest what rules exists > None. If anyone feel like writing a howto document, he does. If anyone likes to abadon it, he does. People are (mostly) not paid for writing howtos. > for the search of the howto > maintainers. The problem is the old howtoes which don't update contain > the invalid e-mails of the authors. They long has changed. The google > gives nothing. I have found the mistaken in the PPP-howto > Give an URL. Kind regards Jan
From: Unruh on 15 Jul 2008 16:00 Daneel Yaitskov <rtfm.rtfm.rtfm(a)gmail.com> writes: >Hi, >I would like to interest what rules exists for the search of the howto >maintainers. The problem is the old howtoes which don't update contain >the invalid e-mails of the authors. They long has changed. The google >gives nothing. I have found the mistaken in the PPP-howto and I would >say to the author about it. If you knows about a maillist, answer to me. No idea. HOwever, you might try www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html if you want advice on how to set up ppp. >Daneel
From: Michael Black on 15 Jul 2008 16:38 On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Daneel Yaitskov wrote: > Hi, > > > I would like to interest what rules exists for the search of the howto > maintainers. The problem is the old howtoes which don't update contain the > invalid e-mails of the authors. They long has changed. The google gives > nothing. I have found the mistaken in the PPP-howto and I would say to the > author about it. If you knows about a maillist, answer to me. > > Daneel > The author of the HOWTO maintains it. Someone decides there is need for a tutorial on a given topic, they look up the template for doing a HOWTO, and they write it. If there is a need to update it, and their interest continues, then they update it. If they lose interest, it doesn't get updated. Hence if the email address is invalid, it's no longer maintained. In some cases, someone interested enough will come along and decide to take over an unmaintained HOWTO. I think they just basically do it, presumably after making an attemtp at finding the author. They are generally issued on a license that is "open source" so one can build on an existing author's work. Some aren't maintained because there's no longer a need. An odd bit of hardware, for instance, might have needed a HOWTO when it was current, but since few are using that hardware anymore, and there have been no changes, there's no reason to update the howto. Others may be abandoned because is better handled in a different HOWTO. Of course, a lot of the HOWTOs haven't been updated in years, suggesting other means of information have taken over. You likely want to read this: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/html/index.html Michael
From: Eric Pozharski on 18 Jul 2008 15:37
Daneel Yaitskov <rtfm.rtfm.rtfm(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I would like to interest what rules exists for the search of the howto > maintainers. The problem is the old howtoes which don't update contain *SKIP* Forget it. If I guess right, then current trend is to stick to some wiki. (Help us to improve it, blah, blah, blah...) As if those wikis are complete. -- Torvalds' goal for Linux is very simple: World Domination |