Since it is widely grokked that community efforts (especially in the software industry) work better than individual efforts, Peter and I have been discussing how we can, as a community, best work on the GPC documentation.
Here is an idea that we came up with: Rather than a web-based form like I suggested, we propose an e-mail based system. With a simple syntax, you can request a portion of the GPC reference documentation, and it will be e-mailed back to you. You can reply, quote the text, and edit what you like, and when you send it back, your changes will be automatically added to the official GPC (texinfo) documentation, and will also be kept online in an HTML format so that everyone has immediate access to your contribution. This way we can all contribute to the GPC documentation effectively.
Any thoughts?
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On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Paul Doerwald wrote:
Here is an idea that we came up with: Rather than a web-based form like I suggested, we propose an e-mail based system. With a simple syntax, you can request a portion of the GPC reference documentation, and it will be e-mailed back to you. You can reply, quote the text, and edit what you like, and when you send it back, your changes will be automatically added to the official GPC (texinfo) documentation, and will also be kept online in an HTML format so that everyone has immediate access to your contribution. This way we can all contribute to the GPC documentation effectively.
Any thoughts?
The format is less important than the activity of the list-members. Originally I initialized the common effort to improve the documentation but I failed to contribute seriously. (I have had hard times, sorry for that.)
OK, try it again in a different way.
miklos
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