[FM Discuss] Can I get authority to publish?

[Lachlan Musicman]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 02:33, Jim Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a book on Floss Manuals titled "Make Your Own Sugar
> Activities!".  The book was originally set up by Anne Gentle and she
> created some empty chapters based on an outline I had emailed to this
> list as a way to explain the scope of what I was proposing to write.
> I have a couple of issues:
>
> 1).  I do not have authority to publish the chapters myself.  It looks
> like only Anne can do that.  I'd like to be able to do a pre-publish
> (how Anne referred to it) as I complete new chapters so I can get them
> reviewed by others.  As a workaround for not being able to do publish
> myself I have used OBJAVI to create a PDF.  This seems to grab the
> latest content whether published or not.

Or you can just ask - I'll do them now :) I don't have the privs to
give you privs, but I can publish...

Ok, so it's not on the front page yet (I don't know why that is), but
it _is_ published:

http://en.flossmanuals.net/ActivitiesGuideSugar/Introduction



> 2).  Since Anne created a bunch of empty chapters at the beginning the
> credits say
>
> © Anne Gentle 2009
> Modifications:
> James Simmons 2009, 2010

I think that's the default - and since the revisions are available to
see, ppl will know that you wrote most of the content. As for others
that wrote the content, unfortuantely the nature of the software is
that the circle-c is automated on those accounts that "touch" the
manual - you can see that I'm now listed and all I've done is publish
:)

I think that's the idea at any rate - I'm sure Adam will be able to
expand on that idea.

cheers
L.


>
> This does not accurately reflect who wrote the contents and I'm
> wondering if it can be changed.  Others from Sugar Labs may contribute
> to this manual at some point and I'd like everyone to be properly
> credited.
>
> Thanks,
>
> James Simmons



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