[NTLUG:Discuss] More Open Source squabbling?

[Kendall Clark]

>>>>> "David" == David Neeley <dneeley at usdata.com> writes:

    David> Kendall,

    David> Thanks for the info re: the LDP. I, too, am very pleased
    David> with the DocBook move. For those who don't understand what
    David> it means, the documentation should become much more usable
    David> by folks like the government, enterprise-level
    David> organizations, and even you and me if we have preferences
    David> in how our documents are done. Additionally, if you might
    David> prefer some other look for the docs, it's easy to slip in
    David> another definition file and output it differently.

Yeah, grumblings re: DocBook mainly come from people who, good
intentioned though they may be, don't really know what they're
talking about.

    David> Basically, this is a move to make Linux appear more
    David> professional to many of the folks we're trying to reach.

    David> Kevin, is there a mailing list for Linux doc people? As
    David> soon as I get my head above water, I intend to begin to
    David> make some contributions...at the moment, working 60 hours
    David> per week in the documentation group in my new job doesn't
    David> quite permit that to happen!

I've written about what it means to move the LDP to DocBook; see:

     http://clark.dallas.tx.us/kendall/roadmap/

There are mailing lists at http://www.linuxdoc.org/, just look around.

<Kendall/>
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