From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/69744 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Frank Schmitt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: References to my.gnus.org/FAQ Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:11:03 +0200 Organization: Hamme net, kren mer och nimmi Message-ID: References: <8739x2mcyj.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1276444407 21053 80.91.229.12 (13 Jun 2010 15:53:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:53:27 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M18135@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Jun 13 17:53:23 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ONpUs-0003gn-Mz for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:53:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1ONpTs-0008Fa-Kf; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 10:52:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1ONkDo-0008N9-7k for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 05:15:20 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1ONkDj-00082Q-FH for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 05:15:19 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1ONkDi-0003Ao-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:15:14 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ONkDh-0007l7-Rf for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:15:13 +0200 Original-Received: from zoidberg.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.69.172]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:15:13 +0200 Original-Received: from ich by zoidberg.uni-koblenz.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:15:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ connect(): No such file or directory Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: zoidberg.uni-koblenz.de X-Face: :EL9TzGRN){7|oE2~xQ8Q(VjpjsXgX$~gi&rYD5J5p)$w\Thdl~v:7h`/n)J!8nXT%_+Wj6}@EHM8}QbA(9nX-wrQ:ch1%DauV[?kFasXUcnL#+"K8zOx&$@/M'/},q-eztaJra1|?C+p$h\2XnK-HB"8_U Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:69744 Archived-At: Tim Landscheidt writes: > Ted Zlatanov wrote: > >> TL> there are some references to (dead for some time now) >> TL> my.gnus.org as the source of the FAQ and to a rather life- >> TL> less repository at Sourceforge in texi/gnus-faq.texi. Any >> TL> suggestions on how to clean this up? > >> I'm in favor of removing those references and pointing people to the >> Emacs Wiki and git.gnus.org instead. > > What about the format and the history? Apparently, > gnus-faq.texi was generated from the Docbook source at > . > Do we maintain the master source as XML, or has texinfo all > the output formats we need? (Info? HTML? PDF?) The conversion from Docbook to Texinfo was quite a pain each time we did it and required quite some manual work. I'd vote for just staying with Texinfo (however, maybe the conversion works better today, it was many years ago that I was involved in this). > How do we properly attribute the previous contributors? > > shows about 50 revisions; can they be imported into the Git > repository in a meaningful way? Otherwise, is it okay/enough > to just make sure that the authors are listed in > gnus-faq.texi and take it from there? (With my mind set to > Wikipedia mode, I'm a bit overcautious in this regard :-).) I don't think it is necessary to import the CVS revisions into Git. -- Have you ever considered how much text can fit in eighty columns? Given that a signature typically contains up to four lines of text, this space allows you to attach a tremendous amount of valuable information to your messages. Seize the opportunity and don't waste your signature on bullshit that nobody cares about.