On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 08:25:18PM +0200, Javier Fern�ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote: > > I think it you'd get things done much faster if you made a new doc/ > > directory yourself (on auric possibly) and described changes you did in a > > concise manner. An FTP admin could then quickly review it, have it approved > > in the group, and move it over to the live tree. > > Ok. I will do this tonight. I will be out for a few hours (giving > wedding invitations to my friends :) > I have started some work at auric.debian.org:/home/jfs/doc/, > please read the README-en.txt file if you have some time and make > suggestions (if any)
Maybe if I have time, I'll check it out. In any case, I'll comment later if anything goes wrong ;) > > This was the FTP admins have to read a 154 line message and find a bunch of > > a bit vague issues... I wouldn't be surprised if they just gave up halfway > > through :) > > Well. Fortunately you didn't. I did, actually :) Shame on me. <shrug> > In any case, just to be sure. ?Is there anything automatic that publishes > the DDP manuals to the FTP server? Not really. Some packages ship "byhand" files which the FTP admins install by hand, but in general there's no all-encompassing procedure to updating that stuff. > Reading http://www.debian.org/doc/docpolicy one would think that they > should have the same layout. However, if this layout is convenient for WWW > publishing (since content negotiation takes care of presenting the proper > document to users) it is not so for FTP/CD stuff since the user has to > browse the files/directories himself (too many clutter to find out > documents on his own language). Yeah, /doc/docpolicy isn't really authoritative these days, it's just ancient. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
