Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 13:30:22 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: "Ogren, Eric C." <ecogren@rsasecurity.com> Cc: "'Nik Clayton'" <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, Eric Ogren <eogren@earthlink.net>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Page for doc contributors? Message-ID: <20000725133022.B12969@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <F504A8CEE925D411AF4A00508B8BE90A1BF6AF@exna07.securitydynamics.com>; from ecogren@rsasecurity.com on Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 03:12:41PM -0400 References: <F504A8CEE925D411AF4A00508B8BE90A1BF6AF@exna07.securitydynamics.com>
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On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 03:12:41PM -0400, Ogren, Eric C. wrote: > OK. I got the impression from a thread a couple of months ago (whose > name I can't remember) that we were trying to reduce/remove all of > those intro blurbs. If that's not the case, then nevermind. :) We are, but we're trying to replace it with the correct DocBook markup so the 'blurb' can be generated (or supressed, or used to generate a big "Table of contributors") automatically. Sadly, I haven't written the DSSSL to do this (Formatting Barbie: DSSSL is hard), and neither has anyone else. . . > This does still leave the FAQ though; do we want to include > "This question submitted by X" at the bottom of a bunch of questions > if somebody puts it there (I don't know if anybody does this or not), I'd really rather not. I'm still somewhat put out by dcs' insistence on a 'copyright' notice on the "How many committers does it take to screw in a lightbulb" question in there. Speaking of which, does anyone want to go out and do an indepth look at the various 'open source' documentation licenses out there? N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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