On Mon, 22 Sep 2014, Dominik Dingel wrote: > On Sat, 20 Sep 2014 09:24:40 -0400 (EDT) > "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Questions? > > As the book is IIUC publicly available would it be possible to set > up a GIT repository with the content and everyone could mark or > change the pages by e.g. special latex commands and sent you a > respective patch? > > This way it would be easier to see what is already reviewed and does > not need to change, and there might be even the small chance that > people could include the requesting change, instead of only putting > a marker where the change should happen. > > The work you have to do should hopefully stays the same, as it would > be with emails you get? i'm not aware that LKD3 is publicly available -- i know LDD3 is. and in any event, as someone who has edited/pre-pub reviewed *many* technical books, i can assure you that authors don't want updates recorded that way, they much prefer bullet points labelled with page and paragraph number so *they* can decide how that content should be rewritten. i/we are not trying to rewrite the book -- all i'm trying to do is keep track of what needs updating so that, if there *is* an LKD4, the author has a concise list of changes. the goal here is to make life easy for the author, not so much for the rest of us. anyway, i just need to finish up a couple things and i can start adding in some updates people have already sent me. rday p.s. i know i mentioned this earlier, but in addition to simple updates: http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Updates_to_LKD3 feel free to suggest improvements to explanations, entirely new features/subsystems that should be addressed, and so on. whatever occurs to you, and i'll try to get it onto that page somewhere. note that section 5 on that page is the chapter by chapter listing, so section 5.1 corresponds to chapter 1, and so on. -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
