From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/69745 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Landscheidt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: References to my.gnus.org/FAQ Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:25:32 +0000 Organization: Message-ID: References: <8739x2mcyj.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87fx0ry761.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 1276460817 6464 80.91.229.12 (13 Jun 2010 20:26:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:26:57 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M18136@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Jun 13 22:26:54 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 1ONtld-0000Sc-Dq for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:26:53 +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 1ONtkg-0000rz-6p; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:25:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1ONtke-0000ro-UK for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:25:52 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1ONtka-00072E-5l for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:25:52 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1ONtkZ-0002fP-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:25:47 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ONtkY-0008KS-Oi for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:25:46 +0200 Original-Received: from f054055134.adsl.alicedsl.de ([78.54.55.134]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:25:46 +0200 Original-Received: from tim by f054055134.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:25:46 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org connect(): No such file or directory Original-Lines: 42 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: f054055134.adsl.alicedsl.de Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:EqZjfrz0RbBQpTDOmuvByeqpq34= X-Spam-Score: -0.0 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:69745 Archived-At: 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. > TL> What about the format and the history? Apparently, > TL> gnus-faq.texi was generated from the Docbook source at > TL> . > TL> Do we maintain the master source as XML, or has texinfo all > TL> the output formats we need? (Info? HTML? PDF?) > There's only Texinfo. Look at texi/Makefile to see how the other > versions are produced. I know; I meant are there output options that the Docbook format offers that are *not* feasible with Texinfo and that we consider valuable? > TL> How do we properly attribute the previous contributors? > TL> > TL> shows about 50 revisions; can they be imported into the Git > TL> repository in a meaningful way? Otherwise, is it okay/enough > TL> to just make sure that the authors are listed in > TL> gnus-faq.texi and take it from there? (With my mind set to > TL> Wikipedia mode, I'm a bit overcautious in this regard :-).) > I'm not sure what gnus.cvs.sourceforge.net has. The Gnus CVS repo we > used for the Git import had texi/gnus-faq.texi with what seems like a > reasonable VC log. Considering the age of the FAQ, we should either > clean it up or move it to be part of the manual IMHO. The issue would have been the changes done before and be- tween imports from SourceForge to the Gnus CVS repository. But with Frank's mail that's done. Cleaning up the FAQ is of course still a nice idea :-). Tim