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

"der.hans" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.www
Message-ID <alpine.DEB.2.11.1903262038050.298@post>
Am 26. Mar, 2019 schwätzte Laura Arjona Reina so:

moin moin Laura,

A first small update attached.

Koen confirmed that there's a new version and said he's with a new
publisher.

ciao,

der.hans

> Hi!
>
> El 25/3/19 a las 3:02, der.hans escribió:
>> Am 22. Mar, 2019 schwätzte Laura Arjona Reina so:
>>
>> moin moin Laura,
>>
>> I went through the first half of the list.
>
> Great, thanks!
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
> It's doable.
>
> We define the fields in this file:
> https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml/blob/master/english/doc/books.def
>
> for example, a new tag ISBN would be:
>
> <define-tag author>
>  <strong><gettext domain="doc">ISBN:</gettext></strong> %attributes<br />
> </define-tag>
>
> Then, the tag is used in each entry in the books.data file:
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml/blob/master/english/doc/books.data
>
> It the above case, it would be:
>
> <ISBN 999-999-999>
>
> (no need to add the field to every book entry right now, it's ok if some
> of them have it and others not).
>
> I'm happy to review and accept Salsa merge requests or patches with your
> changes to those files to get the fields you need added. If it's too
> much and you'd prefer that other person add the fields, just tell and
> I'll do it. If you want to do it yourself but need a bit of help, you
> can contact me off-list and I'll provide more detailed steps.
>
> Kind regards,
>
>> 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,
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>

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books.data.update-wybo-nl.diff (text/x-diff, 847 B)
diff --git a/english/doc/books.data b/english/doc/books.data
index cb75940dc1b..fbb058bf81b 100644
--- a/english/doc/books.data
+++ b/english/doc/books.data
@@ -21,15 +21,15 @@
 
 <language name="dutch">
 <bookentry>
-  <title Debian 8, van inleiding tot systeembeheer>
+  <title Debian 9, van inleiding tot systeembeheer>
   <author Koen Wybo>
-  <publisher brave new books>
+  <publisher pumbo>
   <URL "http://linuxleren.nl/">
   <email [email protected]>
   <br />
   <description
   <gettext domain="doc">
-  Debian 8 is the must-have handbook for learning Linux. Start on the
+  Debian 9 is the must-have handbook for learning Linux. Start on the
   beginners level and learn how to deploy the system with graphical
   interface and terminal.
   This book provides the basic knowledge to grow and become a 'junior'
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