Re: [Bug-gnupress] I'll take a 5th

[Lisa M. Opus Goldstein]

Simon - thanks for the specific pointer. 

I think the "20 part" procedure is a little silly.  Also, we don't
have 20 people to check each part.  

Jim, maybe split the manual up into sections of 40-50 pages each
(depending upon where the logical splits are) and just assign everyone
one section.  

If someone is game for two, they can double-check another seciton.
And if we have extra people, we should use that resource to try and
get >1 person to read a section.  With all the patches/updates lately,
it is possible for odd errors to creep in (repetion, etc).

I will reply to the ones who responded that they know C and then
bounce their letters to this list.


-Opus







Simon Law <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 03:27:01PM -0400, Lisa M. Opus Goldstein wrote:
> > It seems that address@hidden is still alive!
> >
> > I just sent an email there asking for proofreaders and I got nearly a
> > dozen replies within half an hour!  Someone was asking me about it in
> > a separate email chain, wondering if it was defunct, and I thought I
> > would give it a try.
> 
>       Well, a lot of people are subscribed; but now it is just a
> List-O-Spam.  I suspect that they are quite happy to see a real request.
> 
> > Should I just bounce all the technical readers who know C to this
> > group address and let the list figure out what to do?  Or does one
> > person want to handle the divvying up?
> > 
> > If we can have 2 people do a section, that is even better.  Sometimes
> > one person might catch what another might miss.
> 
>       That is a great idea.  I suspect that we should follow the
> protocol [1] in the "Information for Maintainers of GNU Software"
> manual, chapter 16.  I will trust that Jim can split up the PDF into 20
> different fascicles for proofreading.
> 
> Simon
> 
> [1] http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain_28.html
> 
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