[Pkg-doc-linux-devel] Unresponsive HOWTO maintainers

[doug jensen]

As seen on the discuss list; Rahul writing about emailing authors and my
response:

On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 05:53, doug jensen wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 10:51:15AM +0530, rahul wrote:
> > You know I was thinking about that too. Tabatha does it better and
> > it would be more authentic in a way. I have told her that I am willing
> > to do stuff that she doesnt have time for. So if she wants wants me to
> > do it I would glad to.
>
> There are numerous bugs on TLDP documents in the Debian system.
> Attempts to contact the authors have been made, but no response has
> been received.
>
> I think the best way to handle the problem is to work in cooperation
> with TLDP.  If that isn't something that TLDP is interested in, I will
> go back and try to work on it from the Debian side.

In response, this off-list (I wish they would keep more of their mail on
the list) email from Tabatha:

On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 05:46:09PM -0800, Tabatha Marshall wrote:
>  Hi Doug,
>
> This is a fantastic idea.  I'd love to be in the loop on any of these
> types of results if you folks are already contacting some of the
> authors!  Might save me the trouble of duplicating the effort.
>
> I'd like to discuss this with you further!
>
> Tab

What I had in mind was getting TLDP involved in emailing the authors, so
they could see that quite often there is no response.  Also, maybe the
authors will respond to requests from TLDP.

Do either of you have any comments, questions, or preferences?  I don't
want to be doing anything that the doc-linux maintainers are unaware
of, or disagree with.

--
Doug Jensen