Mail Archives: djgpp/1995/06/07/01:33:42
On Tue, 6 Jun 1995, DJ Delorie wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jun 1995, Steve Turnbull [that's me] wrote:
>
> > software that's going to go away in the near future, the documentation of
> > GO32 would be a horrible amount of effort. Right? Now, if you've looked
> > at V2 and see similar problems, that might be a lot more important.
> > But... Who's gonna do the writing?
>
> Someone with a good knowledge of English, I hope. Volunteers sorely
> needed.
>
> Well, enough from me. Remember, "you are free to do what you want, as
> long as you don't stop others from being free to do what they want."
> The more people help with djgpp, the better it gets. If you rely on
> me and the few people actively working on it, you get what we want, at
> the pace we are working. If everyone getting this message (about 700
> people, I'm guessing) wrote a page of documentation, or documented one
> source file, we'd be done in a day.
>
> Today seems like a good day to start.
As somebody else pointed out, coordination makes life more difficult, and
delays accomplishment. I learned a while back that I'm not much for
actually writing stuff. (I proposed a reorganization of the FAQ over a
year ago, then never released anything. Thanks for doing it, Eli!) But I
do read my mail, and I do coordination-type work pretty well.
I volunteer to *coordinate* a "DJGPP Documentation Project." I don't
promise to do any actual writing. :-) I will maintain (1) a list of who's
working on what; (2) a list of what's been accomplished; (3) a wish list;
(4) an archive of documents (minimally in source form; possibly also in
ready-to-print forms), both the FSF docs and those produced by the project
specifically for DJGPP, and (5) a mailing list for those active in the
project. (Announcements would reasonably go to djgpp-announce.)
Please mail me directly about this. Suggestions for the wish list,
preferred source format(s), volunteers to write documents,
proposals/volunteers for a better coordinator :-), whatever.
For the moment, the mailing list will be a simple alias on my Linux box;
I don't trust my skills with listservs yet. So mail requests to get on
the list to me, too.
... And as long as I'm here:
I made some uncalled-for (at least in public) sarcastic comments. I
apologize to DJ, who has been setting a heroic example of (lack of)
flameage for 4 years (in my experience) now. I apologize to the DJGPP
public, who are by and large calm, soft-spoken types. Finally, I
apologize to Mr. Walker; "pot. kettle. black." would be a reasonable reply
to my comments. The apology could easily be private, I suppose, but I
would like to set a better example than I did, and hope others won't
follow that example.
Steve
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