Hi Jonathan, The book project is not dead, but we would have to say it's been dormant and there is no clear leadership at the moment. I'm hoping some of the original authors may offer suggestions since they are still part of this community. I was here at the time, but only had very minor involvement.
I am part of a team of faculty working on student participation in Humanitarian FOSS projects (see http://xcitegroup.org/humit/, http://xcitegroup.org/softhum, and http://hfoss.org). We view our efforts as a special interest within the TOS community, and hope to put some resources into pushing teachingopensource.org forward. What you propose fits with that goal, so I'm happy to hear of your interest in working on the book. I suggest the following: a) Start to fix typos b) For the updates and alternate paths, make your changes, but notify this list for anything "large". I hope we'll have volunteers to review what you're doing (and I'll help with some of that, and trying to find volunteers too). I'm hoping we'll get some comments yea or nay from other list members on this approach. Cheers, Greg Hislop Drexel University -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Loy Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 12:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [TOS] Contributing to the TOS textbook Greetings TOS members, I am a college student currently reading the TOS textbook for my software engineering class. I deeply appreciate the work everyone has put into the project, and would like to also contribute by fixing typos and/or updating portions of the textbook. For example I would like to contribute an alternate path for Chapter 4 & 5 by using distributed version control, namely git, but given enough time bazaar and mercurial. Another option is to update the text to offer more specific guidance for OS X, Ubuntu, and Windows users. Unfortunately, I am unable to find any working issue tracker (it just says fix me in plain text) or another public contribution avenue for the textbook. I am hoping the textbook project is not dead, so if you could please inform me how to properly help this project it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for taking the time to read my email. Sincerely, Jonathan Loy [email protected] _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
