[FM Discuss] Can I get authority to publish?

[adam hyde]

On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 14:20 -0600, Jim Simmons wrote:
> Anne and Lachlan,
> 
> Thanks for publishing the pages.  I think I will use objavi to create
> drafts for review in the future.  It does a nice job, other than the
> fact that it seems to ignore the Title you ask it to use and just uses
> "Make Sugar Activities" on the title page.
> 
> The book is not ready for the front page yet.  I have a few more
> chapters to knock out, and they're going to require some research,
> writing test programs, etc.  Two of the chapters I'm thinking of, on
> collaboration and on debugging techniques, are really necessary.  Some
> of the others could be added after the book is on the front page, and
> maybe I'll do it that way.  I'll let you know.
> 
> As for the credits, I agree that the revision history does show who
> did what.  The credits page in the document does not, and I would have
> to say that that does bug me maybe more than it should.  I understand
> that there will be a new platform called "booki" that will replace
> what the site is using now and maybe that could address some of these
> issues.  It would be nice if there was a proper list of authors on the
> title page generated by objavi too.

the reason why you cant change the copyright notice is because there
needs to be some kind of verification process. the (arbitrary) process
aco and i decided on early on was to change the (c) attribution only via
the command line...hence you need to write to the list with a list of
chapters and the correct attribution and i will change it ...
...but not this week ;)

adam
(indeed booki will not have the same process but more on that later)


> 
> On the whole I have found Floss Manuals to be a great help.  What
> gripes I have with the platform will not prevent me from finishing the
> work I set out to do.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> James Simmons
> 
> 
> > Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:46:08 -0600
> > From: Anne Gentle <annegentle at justwriteclick.com>
> > To: discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
> > Subject: Re: [FM Discuss] Can I get authority to publish?
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> > Hi all -
> > Adam grants maintainer rights, right now I am the maintainer on the
> > SugarLabs docs. To get an idea of the Maintainer's role, read
> > http://en.flossmanuals.net/FLOSSManuals/Maintainers. There are several
> > maintainers on this list, but It's not just a permissions-level role, it's
> > wider than that. For now, keep requesting a publish through the discuss
> > list. We can talk with Adam about your role after the book sprint this week.
> >
> >
> > Thanks Lachlan for publishing - you were quicker on the draw than I could
> > be, this week anyway. :)
> >
> > Jim, you're correct that Objavi creates a PDF using the latest content. The
> > Publish command simply puts the HTML pages on the "Read" area. Sending out
> > PDFs may be a normal way to get reviews from people.
> >
> > As for the copyright notice, the setup works that way. If it really bothers
> > you (sounds like it might), we'll see what we can do. And yes, the revisions
> > are available for the world to see, so it's not like people can't figure out
> > who did the real work. :) For most of the books, Adam shows up as "first" in
> > the contributors list, but that's because he creates the outlines like I did
> > for this book. Everyone who contributes will get attributed correctly by the
> > wiki software that runs FM.
> >
> > Thanks for the work you're doing on the book! It's shaping up nicely. Let me
> > know if you'd like me to work on getting contributors with you.
> > Anne
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