Re: RFA: www.debian.org/doc/books

Laura Arjona Reina <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.www
Message-ID <[email protected]>

Hi!

El 22 de marzo de 2019 18:57:39 CET, "der.hans" <[email protected]> escribió:
>Am 21. Mar, 2019 schwätzte Laura Arjona Reina so:
>
>moin moin Laura,
>
>I would like to help out with this if I can.

Great! Thanks!

 Do you have to be a debian
>developer to help?
>
No, merge requests in Salsa or diffs/patches to the list are perfectly fine. After some successful contributions, you could get permissions to commit directly to the repo. 


>The initial need is to go through the current list and verify the
>listed
>books are relevant to stable?
>

Yes, we can start with that.
If I receive a new request via books@ I can forward. I'll also have a look at the mailbox archives to see if there is a pending request and file a bug.

Thanks!


>ciao,
>
>der.hans
>
>> Dear all
>> As part of the recent web team sprint [1] (report will come in the
>> following days hopefully), we have reviewed several areas of the
>website
>> that were in need of maintenance.
>>
>> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2019/DebianWebTeam
>>
>> For the /english/doc/books page [2], we need maintainer(s) to keep
>> up-to-date the database of books, process new requests, and care
>about
>> the bugs related to the list of books, if any.
>>
>> [2] https://www.debian.org/books
>>
>> This is a call for help, or request for "adoption": would anybody
>> volunteer to this task?
>>
>> In the /english/doc folder of our repo [3] you can find the
>> books-related files.
>>
>> [3]
>>
>https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml/blob/master/english/doc/
>>
>> Maintaining the /doc/books section can be a nice entry point for
>> somebody to get involved in the Debian web team. Technically
>speaking,
>> it's an easy job, but the "curation" task that a human provides is
>very
>> appreciated by our users. On the contrary, an outdated or
>unmaintained
>> list of books looses its value very quickly.
>>
>> If somebody is interested in adoption, they won't be alone (at least
>at
>> the beginning). I've included my address in the alias
>[email protected]
>> to work together with them until they find a suitable workflow and
>they
>> feel comfortable doing the task themselves. We'll also document
>> everything for others to jump in too.
>>
>> If nobody steps ahead at the end of the year, we'll move the current
>> (English) content to a page under wiki.debian.org, removing the
>section
>> (English and translations) from www.debian.org.
>>
>> If you are interested, reply to this message in the public mailing
>list
>> ([email protected]) or privately to [email protected] and
>I'll
>> point to detailed steps to start. You can also join #debian-www IRC
>> channel (in irc.debian.org).
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>

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Laura Arjona Reina
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