Hi all,
A few days ago Davide Truffa and I opened a mailing list[1] on Alioth, which
will be used for the purpose of coordinating the writing and proofreading
(hence Cc:ing the l10n-english list) of the packaging handbook[2].
I'd invite anybody which may be interested to subscribe. I'm also loo
On Aug 19, 2007, at 2:24 AM, Luca Brivio wrote:
Alle mer 15 agosto 2007, martin f krafft ha scritto:
also sprach Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[2007.08.10.1746 +0200]:
Martin Krafft and I jointly gave a talk at Debconf about
use of
distributed version control systems for Deb
Luca Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> BTW, does anybody have any concerns about the licensing?
Yes. Please choose a license that is uncontroversially free within
Debian. This excludes the GNU FDL and the Creative Commons licenses.
My recommendation would be either the GNU GPL or the Expat li
Alle mer 15 agosto 2007, martin f krafft ha scritto:
> also sprach Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.08.10.1746 +0200]:
> > Martin Krafft and I jointly gave a talk at Debconf about use of
> > distributed version control systems for Debian packages (this is the
> > quilt/dpatch/ot
also sprach Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.08.10.1746 +0200]:
> Martin Krafft and I jointly gave a talk at Debconf about use of
> distributed version control systems for Debian packages (this is the
> quilt/dpatch/other dimension); I would be happy to help documenting
> that
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 13:50:53 +0200, Luca Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Indeed, it looks at me that one of most exciting and challenging goals
> would be to outline (and hence describe in a detailed manner) all of
> the different existing styles and compare them after several points of
> view,
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 14:22:55 +0200, Luca Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> This make sense to me. These two documents should be
> enough. Sub-policies that don't fit the Policy Manual should be
> included (at least at a first stage) in the wiki-based
> handbook. Furthermore, the New Maintainers'
Nico Golde ha scritto:
> I don't want to run down this idea but wouldn't the
> result be nearly the same as the new maintainers guide +
> developers reference + things you think are missing from the
> current documentation but can be added?
Our intention is to create an exhaustive documentatio
On 8/8/07, François Févotte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 8/8/07, Davide Truffa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > we are a few wannabe-DD who think it would be really helpful to have a
> > comprehensive packaging manual covering just all technical topics about
> > making and maintaining D
François Févotte ha scritto:
> Thanks for the initiative. I entirely agree with you: I also use to
> spend some time switching back and forth between the different
> available documents, and I would definitely use such a unified,
> comprehensive packaging manual.
We think this is exactly the probl
Alle mer 8 agosto 2007, Lars Wirzenius ha scritto:
> On ke, 2007-08-08 at 14:12 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Without that structure, and a strict policy of being *only* an index
> > to existing documents, I don't see how this project would avoid
> > creating yet-another-document to read, compoundin
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Davide Truffa wrote:
Hi all,
we are a few wannabe-DD who think it would be really helpful to have a
comprehensive packaging manual covering just all technical topics about
making and maintaining Debian packages.
Since the beginning of July, I have started writing a book a
Alle mer 8 agosto 2007, Luca Capello ha scritto:
> Hello!
>
> On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:27:14 +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> > One step might be to convert the New Maintainer's Guide into the
> > wiki format, then importing any missing information from the Debian
> > Developers' Reference to it. Putti
Alle mer 8 agosto 2007, Manoj Srivastava ha scritto:
> > The goal is from my POV to produce something much more complete and
> > with a different scope: while the NMG etc. are (roughly) tutorials
> > targeted to people who want to make their first packages etc., the DPH
> > would be a rich manual f
Hello!
On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:27:14 +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> One step might be to convert the New Maintainer's Guide into the
> wiki format, then importing any missing information from the Debian
> Developers' Reference to it. Putting it all in the wiki is good, so
> that it is more easily e
Hello,
On 8/8/07, Davide Truffa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> we are a few wannabe-DD who think it would be really helpful to have a
> comprehensive packaging manual covering just all technical topics about
> making and maintaining Debian packages.
On 8/8/07, Luca Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 07:26:11 +0200, Luca Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Alle mer 8 agosto 2007, Ben Finney ha scritto:
>> Thanks for taking the initiative to do this work.
> Thanks for your attention.
>> > At this moment, we have the New Maintainers' Guide and a bunch of
>> > other more or l
Luca Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> One of the biggest problems we experienced is that the existing
> documentation, albeit useful and rather rich, is not coherent. I
> think we need something more homogeneous, backed by an overall
> design. This would not be yet-another-document to read, in
On ke, 2007-08-08 at 14:12 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Without that structure, and a strict policy of being *only* an index
> to existing documents, I don't see how this project would avoid
> creating yet-another-document to read, compounding the problem you
> initially described.
I think it makes
Alle mer 8 agosto 2007, Ben Finney ha scritto:
> Thanks for taking the initiative to do this work.
Thanks for your attention.
> > At this moment, we have the New Maintainers' Guide and a bunch of
> > other more or less good tutorials, anyway when one wants to make an
> > even simple package she/h
Davide Truffa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> we are a few wannabe-DD who think it would be really helpful to have
> a comprehensive packaging manual covering just all technical topics
> about making and maintaining Debian packages.
Thanks for taking the initiative to do this work.
> At this momen
Hi,
* Davide Truffa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-08 06:00]:
> we are a few wannabe-DD who think it would be really helpful to have a
> comprehensive packaging manual covering just all technical topics about
> making and maintaining Debian packages.
>
> At this moment, we have the New Maintainers'
Hi all,
we are a few wannabe-DD who think it would be really helpful to have a
comprehensive packaging manual covering just all technical topics about
making and maintaining Debian packages.
At this moment, we have the New Maintainers' Guide and a bunch of other
more or less good tutorials, anywa
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