[FM Discuss] Volunteer Manual maintainers wanted to test migration

[joachim heintz]

hi mick -

yes, please re-route readers to this site. when this is done, i will 
announce the new release.

i like the new design in general, only that i miss the light-red 
background of the code examples.  but if it is complicated to get this 
back, i can live.

thanks also for the detailed information about the state of floss 
manuals.  this is good to know.  i appreciate not only the time you 
dedicate for this, but also for this kind of communication.

cheers -
	joachim



Am 01.07.2015 um 19:23 schrieb Mick FM:
>
>
> On 01/07/15 17:30, joachim heintz wrote:
>> hi mick -
>>
>> thanks for the excellent description.  all worked like a charm, and
>> took only some minutes.  i checked some chapters, and all looks fine.
>>
>> what now?
>
> Hi there,
>
> Thanks for doing this. I've had some minor issues moving a couple of
> books across. But only small ones that are easily resolvable. Your
> csound manual all seems good doesn't it?
>
> What now? Well in the short term I suggest re-routing readers from
> flossmanuals.net to the page here
> http://floss.booktype.pro/csound/preface/
> Is it ok if I set that up on the server?
>
> And here's the long story for what now! So the overall challenge of
> FLOSS Manuals over the last few years has been maintaining a complex
> technical and organisational structure.
>
> When we last met up in Amsterdam we looked at the French FLOSS Manuals
> group as a good model for the International community. It's more focused
> and more light-weight.
>
> Overall plan looks like this. Legally, disband the FLOSS Manuals
> Foundation in NL (this is now underway after a board meeting this week),
> and set up a CiC in the UK for the English language site and community.
> The idea is to lower administrative costs and time, not have permanent
> staff and work on a project by project basis.
>
> Technically, we need to lower the technical overhead of the project.
> It's not ideal to have 4 servers doing different things running
> experimental but outdated code bases. Jo P has been doing a *great* job
> patching things up but we need to move on.
>
> There are 2 main parts of the site. The WRITE section currently at
> http://booki.flossmanuals.net we'll ask SourceFabric to maintain. This
> is currently at http://floss.booktype.pro but we'll ask them to host it
> at http://write.flossmanuals.net. We'll create an archive of the current
> WRITE site so that manuals can be available if they are needed to be
> revived.
>
> The READ section will stay on a server that Greenhost.nl has kindly
> offered to sponsor. The php codebase will be replaced with a Django one.
> We are nearly there with that and starting to work on the html templates.
>
> I'm doing this work at the moment as a volunteer and looking to set up
> some paying projects after the summer when then period of migration is
> done.
>
> In the coming months, they'll be plenty of opportunities for volunteer
> contributions either small or big to help make this happen. It's always
> been a good response to call outs for help on this list and that is one
> of the reasons that I'm so keen to make sure this project keeps going.
>
> nice one
> Mick
>
>
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