Administrivia and a question was: [parisc-linux] Question for theFaq

[Jane Vinet]

Thanks Russ for your comments, I will try to have these issues addressed
this week.

Jane

R P Herrold wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Phillip D. Beal wrote:
> 
> > I thought I'd post this to be added to the faq, as I was stumped on this
> > problem for a while, and I think some people might hit the same problem.
> 
> <snip good 'hint and kink type' contribution>
> 
> 1. The submission got me thinking.  I just examined
> http://parisc-linux.org/faq.html --- and there is no listing
> of a formal role-address for an 'editor' of FAQ content.  So
> it will probably be lost in the essectially unsearchable
> archive at:
> http://puffin.external.hp.com/mailing-lists/parisc-linux/
> 
> 2, I was going to address the question of who is responsible
> for making sure these gems to not get lost to the
> administratative contact on the mailing list, so I checked
> http://parisc-linux.org/lists.html -- no mention of the
> role-address for parisc-linux-owner@thepuffingroup.com or
> owner-parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com.
> 
> Of course the first entry on that page, for the announce
> archive is a dead link ...
> http://parisc.thepuffingroup.com/mailing-lists/parisc-linux-announce
> 
> 3. So I checked the mailer headers -- nope- the list
> namagement headers are not there, of this sort from another
> list:
> 
> List-Help: <http://www.suncoastlug.org/lists.html>
> List-Unsubscribe:
>      <mailto:majordomo@owlriver.com?body=unsubscribe%20slug>
> List-Subscribe:
>     <mailto:majordomo@owlriver.com?body=subscribe%20slug%20YourName>
> List-Owner: <mailto:owner-slug@owlriver.com> (Human contact
>     for the list)
> List-Post: <mailto:slug@owlriver.com>
> Sender: owner-slug@owlriver.com
> 
> Nope, no help there.
> 
> 4.  In getting to the project webpages, I pasted
> parisc-linux-owner@thepuffingroup.com, and editted that down
> to www.thepuffingroup.com -- which went through two redirects
> to get to: http://parisc-linux.org/
> 
> A one line trailer might be useful:
> 
> See the website: http://parisc-linux.org/
> 
> -------------------------------
> 
> I don't see problems so much as too much work for too few
> hands, resulting in the technical side getting done first (as
> it must be a priority, lest the project be Yet Anither Dead
> Open Source Project [tm]).  Pollyanna would say they were
> 'opportunities'.
> 
> I can file a good bug report describing what I see -- I can
> follow documentation with the best of them -- I stand in awe
> of Alex, Grant and the rest of the coding team on the depth of
> their knowledge in getting the port up and running.
> 
> So my question is: How may one contribute at an editorial and
> project infrastructure level?  I wish to do so, and bet others
> on the list do too.
> 
> -- Russ Herrold
> 
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