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

Am 22. Mar, 2019 schwätzte Laura Arjona Reina so:

moin moin Laura,

I went through the first half of the list.

I have contacted a few of the authors to verify updated information.

Can we somewhat easily add fields? I think it would be nice to add debian
release and ISBN.

And a random sig about books appears :).

ciao,

der.hans

> 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 On the contrary, an outdated or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,
>>>
>
>