[H-GEN] Linux Home Server HOWTO

[Loquacity]

On 21 February 2010 14:20, Daniel Devine <devine at ddevnet.net> wrote:

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> I almost forgot! I tried to turn up to the exec meeting a few weeks
> ago but I screwed up my travel arrangements and arrived an hour late.
> The minutes have been posted on the Wiki which says the results were:
>
> "Linux Home Server HOWTO
> Miles Brennan has offered up control of his _Linux Home Server HOWTO_
> to Humbug for us to maintain. The Executive needs to determine if we
> should accept this work and how it might be maintained.
> The general consensus is that it will be difficult to find someone to
> maintain it. "
>
> Had I been there I would have stuck my hand up for this.
> It is quite a bit of work however the content is good and I would
> really hate to see it go. I run CentOS servers so the FC5 oriented
> content is familiar to me.
>
> We/I could also think about changing how the book is maintained; I
> think it may be better to release the content as an open source book
> in the style that Dive Into Python (IIRC) does. It is just like an
> open source coding project in which you set up a VCS and project
> guidelines and then you develop and maintain the code.
> Perhaps some others can help maintain it? There seems to be a bit of
> community around the http://howtoforge.com site which may be
> interested in helping as they write/use this type of content all the
> time.
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Maybe you could consider maintaining it through the floss manuals community?

L


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