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Re: The future of this book
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Akim Demaille |
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Re: The future of this book |
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Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:00:29 +0200 |
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Gary> Yeah. I agree. I feel somewhat to blame for not having ridden the
Gary> project harder. Then again the last 18 months have seen my life turn
Gary> on its head a couple of times. Happily (for me) but unfortunately (for
Gary> the book, and my activity in the GNU projects I maintain) I am enjoying
Gary> where I am at a lot right now in RL.
Hi Gary!
Pleased to hear from you :) What does RL mean?
>> This book needs a maintainer, as IMNSHO that's what lacked amongst us,
>> and led to this disaster.
Gary> O'Reilly could have done a better job with their editing and
Gary> timely feedback.
I have griefs against them, and I shall not hide them. I respect
Andy, but he has been a terrible coach. I expected my feedback, and
also something consistent with the feedback I had from other people,
who liked the material.
Gary> But what's done is gone. I agree. This option is good. I
Gary> would like to continue to work on this though and potentially
Gary> sell it to a publisher (under the GFDL) when it's done. I
Gary> think this is only possible if we (the authors) retain the
Gary> copyright, but I'd be happy to hear RMS' and Arnold Robbins'
Gary> view on the matter.
I think this is a nice direction. Actually, I recently bought books
from RMS, they (physically) look great! Maybe the FSF is the editor
we want?
Gary> Realistically, I am not going to have much time until after my
Gary> 2nd Dan grading in May, and after that perhaps two evenings per
Gary> week.
I'm not going to have more time than I already had.
Gary> I'm open to persuasion, but would prefer to own the copyright
Gary> and retain the option to publish at a later date...
If I can be convinced this *will* happen, I'm OK. I'm kind of
pessimistic, given the failure we experienced. So I'm in favor of a
hard deadline: if we fail to prove we are able to manage this book in
the near future, let's face our impotency, and handle the baby to some
other guys (I have to make the same move with a2ps :).