Re: Kernel Performance Doc Project

[Rik van Riel <riel@humbolt.nl.linux.org>]

On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Justin Couch wrote:

> I've been looking around at the documentation project and thought it
> might be something that I could definitely throw some experience into.

That would be nice, yes.

> For instance, I've written a draft ISO spec, a number of IETF Internet
> Drafts and working on book number 8 at the moment (all programming
> books).

<drool> That sounds like the kind of person we need
help from :)

> Before tossing my hat into the ring definitely, I'd like to get some
> idea of the expectations of the contributions wanted. Basically, I
> assume the initial startup will be quite heavy just to get content
> online but what sort of expectations in hours/day/week would you
> envisage? How many others have you got at the moment? etc etc

We're with 8 people right now, but that could have
easily grown to ten when you read this. We have a
document tree under CVS, I hope to have it all in
HTML soon so people can keep track of what they read.

As you've seen, there's not much done yet. Once we've
got a little bit online, we can simpy put a template
file in the tree that can be used to add new stuff in
an easy way.

I think that once the site is online, we don't have to
invest more than 3 to 5 hours a week in order to keep it
up to date and -- occasionally -- to add new sections.

cheers,

Rik -- Open Source: you deserve to be in control of your data.
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