[FM Discuss] final TOC

[adam hyde]

On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 08:45 -0500, Andy Oram wrote:
> My impression is that FLOSS manuals uses a fairly conventional
>  authorship model. Can you fill me in? I see books being written with
>  one author per chapter, or even in larger chunks. Of course, people
>  can edit and make changes, but there is a sense of one person being in
>  charge of each chunk.

It differs from manual to manual. Some are very unconventionally
authored - these are generally the products of the book sprints, where
sometimes a chapter has one small paragraph written by someone, another
adds a few more bits, someone else re-writes it, some edits, more is
added

sometimes entire manuals are the result of one author


adam


> 
> O'Reilly, and several other publishers, are trying to figure out whether we can do print-on-demand and slip changes into each copy of a book we print. There are several difficulties with that. For instance, don't people who buy a print copy deserve updates? If so, how does the publisher deliver them?
> 
> The book about the concurrent language must have been Haskell. It's a mammoth book.
> 
> Andy
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