[FM Discuss] AIDR manual missing

Heather Leson heatherleson at gmail.com
Sun Mar 20 04:11:26 PDT 2016


Thanks for your efforts. Our team is recreating the manual and will
consider adding it to the new system

Heather

Heather Leson
heatherleson at gmail.com
Twitter: HeatherLeson
Blog: textontechs.com

On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 10:12 PM, Mick Fuzz <mickfuzz23 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I'm sad about this situation as the migration could have been done a lot
> better with the right time and skills. It just got to a point where we had
> to turn off the server.
>
> Let's try to get a situation where we can get at least the text of the
> manual back and the image files. Firstly offline.
>
> If you are interested in trying to get an online version back up please
> let me know and we can move the discussion to the admin list.
>
> Mick on the move.
>
> On 28 Feb 2016, at 06:22, Heather Leson <heatherleson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks so much.
>
> As mentioned there was a staff change and I am new to this mailing list.
> Truly I know how thankless migration projects can be.
>
> I had previously sent a note to admin for the manual site but had not
> gotten a response. (re: making the manual not a draft but live).
>
> If there is an archive that I can locate data, great. If not, so many
> lessons learned.
>
> Have a good sunday
>
> Heather
>
> Heather Leson
> heatherleson at gmail.com
> Twitter: HeatherLeson
> Blog: textontechs.com
>
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 9:19 PM, mark <mark at aktivix.org> wrote:
>
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>> Heather, Mike,
>>
>> I'm sad that this important book has been lost and I hope that it can
>> be recreated. Also I'm sad that when Mick was working hard to recruit
>> people to migrate manuals, making repeated requests for help on this
>> list, none of the AIDR team seem to have got the message. Both these
>> things are unfortunate.
>>
>> Also, it was not easy to find the source for booktype [1] from the
>> booktype.pro website, which was frustrating to me and I expect others
>> might feel frustrated by that also. Promoting the hosted product
>> without linking the source is not ideal, IMHO.
>>
>> After some searching I did find this excellent article [2] written by
>> sourcefabric, which I hope will enable others to install booktype and
>> extract manuals from Mick's postgreSQL dump.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mark
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/sourcefabric/Booktype
>> [2]
>> https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-publish-books-wi
>> th-booktype-on-debian-8
>> <https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-publish-books-with-booktype-on-debian-8>
>>
>>
>> Heather Leson:
>> > HI Mick, Can you please advise how we might be able to install
>> > booktype manually and retrieve the content?
>> >
>> > Also I thought we had published the manual but it is unfortunate
>> > that the migration did not include all the books.
>> >
>> > In the meantime, we are reconstructing the manual.
>> >
>> > Heather
>> >
>> > Heather Leson heatherleson at gmail.com Twitter: HeatherLeson Blog:
>> > textontechs.com
>> >
>> > On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 8:19 PM, Mick Chesterman
>> > <mick at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 10/02/16 07:25, Heather Leson wrote:
>> >>
>> >> HI Folks,  We unfortunately don't have a back up of the manual.
>> >> When you did the migration did you back up the data or download
>> >> all the content in epub before doing it?
>> >>
>> >> I tried to locate it on archive.org, but AIDR was not linked to
>> >> the main pages.
>> >> https://web.archive.org/web/20151015134433/http://www.flossmanuals.or
>> g/
>> <https://web.archive.org/web/20151015134433/http://www.flossmanuals.org/>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> Thank you in advance
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Hi Heather,
>> >>
>> >> We have a back up of all the 'published' manuals which live at
>> >> http://en.flossmanuals.net
>> >>
>> >> I also tried to locate it on archive.org as that is a good way
>> >> for us to recover a manual in a situation like this.
>> >>
>> >> But it appears that the AIDR manual wasn't published to that site
>> >> and only lived in the Write part of our site.
>> >>
>> >> The difference here is that the text data only lives in the
>> >> database and is tricky to separate out. We have a back up of the
>> >> whole database and data but it would only be useful if you are
>> >> able to install booktype locally to export that manual.
>> >>
>> >> Sorry not to be able to help more.
>> >>
>> >> Mick
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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