From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/43891 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robin S. Socha" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus FAQ maintainership Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 09:27:55 -0500 Organization: Trial By Combat Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016213019 3880 127.0.0.1 (15 Mar 2002 17:23:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 17:23:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Justin Sheehy Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([195.204.10.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16lvLU-0000PZ-03 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 18:18:24 +0100 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (malifon.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.13]) by hermes.netfonds.no (8.10.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g2FEVIM29630 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 15:31:19 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16lsh2-0002dh-00; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 08:28:28 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 15 Mar 2002 08:28:34 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA22625 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 08:28:21 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 25845 invoked by alias); 15 Mar 2002 14:28:10 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 25840 invoked from network); 15 Mar 2002 14:28:10 -0000 Original-Received: from mail1.kens.com (qmailr@209.70.202.39) by gnus.org with SMTP; 15 Mar 2002 14:28:10 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 14284 invoked by uid 1000); 15 Mar 2002 14:27:55 -0000 Original-To: Ding , webmasters@my.gnus.org X-URL: X-Fnord: +++ath X-WebTV-Stationery: Standard; BGColor=black; TextColor=black X-Message-Flag: Message text blocked: ADULT LANGUAGE/SITUATIONS X-BeenThere: hellfire@templeofhate.com X-MSMail-Priority: High Reply-By: Tue, 24 Jul 1782 19:02:00 +1000 X-Face: #Z}0zkbqU,m`+S)^0R[.23L-o>U{UQ|(DvIqu^Bjw:po_g9;4JnT9tbn;QX$ga/LYS In-Reply-To: (Justin Sheehy's message of "Thu, 14 Mar 2002 16:08:20 -0500") Original-Lines: 59 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) (i386-unknown-openbsd3.0) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43891 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43891 * Justin Sheehy writes: > I have decided that I should probably abdicate the maintainership of > the Gnus FAQ. I think I speak for many people if I take this opportunity to express my heartfelt gratitude for the wonderful job you've been doing. The FAQ has made working with Gnus considerably easier for me and, I presume, many other people. [...] > For the past several months, this has meant that I haven't given the > Gnus FAQ the time that it deserves. Someone who is currently more > active in the Gnus community and that wants to improve it should be > able to do so. > > Preferably, the new maintainer would: > > - Be able to provide a canonical and reliable web location for the > FAQ. (though perhaps the my.gnus.org folks could help with this) We can an will. > - Be able to post the FAQ monthly to the required Usenet groups. We've got our own newsserver and we're going to use it. > - Maintain the FAQ such that it can be published to the following > three formats easily: > > - a useful format for Usenet, preferable the existing minidigest > - TexInfo > - a single HTML page I presume this is subject to negotiation? If so, we've got a comple of ideas that might make handling the FAQ a little easier (not too many people speak texi, including myself). > - Be reasonably responsive and objective in handling FAQ updates. Since we've got 5 people looking after MGO and willing to handle the FAQ, that won't be a problem. We've already got our documentation under CVS and have set up a group of editors. > - Be able to work with the Gnus developers to handle issues related > to the FAQ. We'll add faq@my.gnus.org and we're in business. > Please send mail to me at justin@iago.org with any comments and questions > or if you want to volunteer. I've taken the liberty to include the Ding list and the MGO staff to, well, let you guys know that we're volunteering. On behalf of the MGO team, Robin -- Robin S. Socha http://my.gnus.org/Members/robin/