RE: Hurd web (other things to do)

[Jim Franklin]

Hi Phil,
 I think in your case the best copyright for you would be the same as Neal's
copyright. If I remember correctly it is a standard GNU FDL under Neal's
name. I believe Ognyan is also using this type copyright. I do need an
archived statement from you on what exactly we should copy from the debian
CD install pages. This as in if you wrote all the info on the page or if
part then which part. We can only copyright under your name exactly the
whole or parts of the CD install pages that you yourself wrote.

Thx
Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Charles [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 11:48 PM
To: Jim Franklin
Cc: Jeff Bailey; address@hidden; Ognyan Kulev; Ian Duggan; Attila Nagy
Subject: RE: Hurd web (other things to do)


On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Jim Franklin wrote:

> )need to hook Neal's FAQ (which he now considers stable) into the
> boilerplate. I was thinking of calling it FAQ2 as opposed to our other
FAQ.
> He has given his permission to use it. We must change the copyright info
at
> the bottom of the boilerplate to reflect HIS copyright information and not
> the FSF copyright info.

Choose the best copyright for my page.


> )We need updated versions of the reference manual (maybe this should be
> hooked into the script for updating the hurd source weekly?) and original
> FAQ hooked into the boilerplate. I think Ognyan was considering doing
this.
> )hook Marcus'translator doc, Thomas' paper on OSes, and etc into the
> boilerplate.
> )change Phil's CD doc to reflect the CD image now at gnu web site.
> )create a page on Phil minimal floppy set for installing the hurd.

I have tried to find my way into into hurd.gnu.org from www.gnu.org and I
failed.  Any chance of make this obvious?

I have also made several desultory attempts to locate the hurd-F2 images on
the gnu site and failed, again it would be helpful if this could be made
obvious.

IMHO, we need to look closely at how we can make access to information
about the Hurd more straight forward.

> )we are attracting probably young developers (early twenties?) who are
> probably trying to make a name for themselves hacking kernel so keep the
> language modern. Also the folks who have been trying to contribute to the
> linux kernel and have been aced out by the 'good old boy' system in place
> for the linux kernel. (I got this info from some old archived hurd
> messages).

I had a gut feeling that this was the case.  I should be able to do
something with the CDs to push this along.  IIRC, there is about 400MB of
realy useful stuff on the first (Main) CD.  If people would let me know
what source, documentation etc that would be needed on the Main CD for
kernel hackers to get on with the job I can make certain that it is
included on the Main CD.  The other material would be shunted onto the
second (extra) CD. At this stage I suggest that this be done with the F4
discs, due out the end of July.

Once this is done I can look at the minimal floppy set.

I like this policy.  Let's get assertive about it.

Phil.

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