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Re: [Trlog] TRmanual status

To: n7dr@arrl.net
Subject: Re: [Trlog] TRmanual status
From: Mark Bailey <kd4d@comcast.net>
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 09:25:20 -0400
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Hi Doc:

You may want to look at sourceforge.net for hosting.  Several
open source projects are using it.

(See
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=6025&group_id=1)

I hope they would accept this.

73,

Mark, KD4D

n7dr@arrl.net wrote:
> For the last few years, it has been my honour and privilege to produce and 
> maintain the manual for TR.
> 
> I find that I can no longer now give this job the attention that it needs 
> and deserves, and, after consultation with Tree, I would like to propose 
> that instead of maintaining the manual as a "proprietary" document, it be 
> released under some suitable documentation license so that others can 
> contribute to it as their interest and desire dictate.
>  
> I'm not sure exactly how the logistics of this are going to work, but I 
> anticipate something pretty simple, basically like this:
> 
> all the files that are used to build the manual are released to some 
> sort of hosting service (I looked at sourceforge, but it's not at all 
> clear that they will accept a project that is documentation for a non OSS 
> program);
> some number of people (I am willing to be one of these) are granted 
> write access to the CVS or SVN database, and basically act as moderators 
> for changes.
>  
> So the questions that face me at the moment are:
>   1. what is a suitable license?
>   2. where is a suitable hosting site?
>   3. is anyone else interested in being a moderator?
>  
> I would be happy to receive responses to any of these questions, either 
> privately or publicly.
>  
> FWIW, the manual is in LaTeX.
> 
> Doc  N7DR
> 
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