From: Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: References to my.gnus.org/FAQ
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:29:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ljai3ccz.fsf@passepartout.tim-landscheidt.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3iq5n8cp4.fsf@mid.gehheimdienst.de>
Frank Schmitt <ich@frank-schmitt.net> 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
>> <URI:http://gnus.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gnus/gnus-faq/>.
>> 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).
I think Texinfo fits very well with an Emacs environment, so
I'm okay with that as well.
>> How do we properly attribute the previous contributors?
>> <URI:http://gnus.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gnus/gnus-faq/src/gnus-faq.xml?view=log>
>> 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.
As you and Reiner were the primary authors at SourceForge,
that's very nice to hear.
Tim
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-13 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-02 23:47 Tim Landscheidt
2010-06-05 2:26 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-06-09 23:52 ` Tim Landscheidt
2010-06-13 2:53 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-06-13 20:25 ` Tim Landscheidt
2010-06-14 19:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-06-14 20:35 ` Tim Landscheidt
2010-06-15 6:22 ` Reiner Steib
2010-07-01 14:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-06-15 7:09 ` Frank Schmitt
2010-06-13 10:11 ` Frank Schmitt
2010-06-13 20:29 ` Tim Landscheidt [this message]
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