McD, You're right, apart from getting the RPM Guide into git last night, nothing has been done on it yet. When I tried to make it last night, I got some errors barfed at me that were apparently bad enough to prevent the creation of a PDF. I got an intro to DocBook/Publican from jsmith yesterday, so I feel reasonably well-equipped to get it figured out. BC On 7/10/09, John J. McDonough <wb8rcr@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > At FUDcon, Florian Festi approached me about Docs updating the RPM Guide and > the book, Maximum RPM, both of which have gotten a little stale. The RPM > Guide was already on our radar, and Ben Cotton has taken point on getting > that ready to be worked on. > > Maximum RPM is currently hosted at rpm.org, and does not appear to have been > built with the old doc tools. There seem to be some specific dependencies > on Fedora 8, so there will be a little work converting it to something more > up to date. > > The other issue, though, is licensing. This probably won't be difficult to > deal with but it is something that needs to be addressed. The current > copyright holder is Red Hat. > > We will probably discuss this at an upcoming Docs Team meeting, but I did > want to give everyone a heads-up that this is going on. We may also want to > carry on some discussion on an rpm.org mailing list so that community is > also aware of the effort. > > At this point not much has actually happened. Ben has moved the RPM Guide > to git, but I don't think anything else has happened there, I have looked at > the Maximum RPM sources and verified Florian's assessment that this isn't a > straightforward build, and quaid is aware of the licensing issues. > > The RPM Guide is at: > git.fedoraproject.org/rpmguide.git > > Maximum RPM is at > rpm.org/git/max-rpm.git > > --McD > > -- > fedora-docs-list mailing list > fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list > -- Sent from my mobile device Ben Cotton -- fedora-docs-list mailing list fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
