Re: Maintainer needed for Serial-Programming-HOWTO

["Gary Frerking" <garyf@turbopower.com>]

Gee, did you ever try to contact the "new" maintainer that essentially did
nothing?

I've tried to contact Vern a couple of times, but his email and my email
don't seem to get along very well. I didn't think it would be right to grab
his stuff without his permission.

I've asked others for input, got nada in return.

Now, you look for someone else to take over without even trying to contact
me.

Instead of looking for someone else to do another iteration of the loop;
let's break out, eh? I'm busy like everyone else. I've got a version 2 in
the works, but it's been in the works for awhile now. Not being able to get
in touch with people and not getting feedback from people doesn't help
things when I'm already overloaded elsewhere.

If someone wants to take it over and has the time and know how (and follow
through) to do a good job, then I'll happily step aside -- but I'm still
willing to work on it and I'm not exactly thrilled about your approach on
this.

-- Gary

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Lawyer" <dave@lafn.org>
To: "linux-serial" <linux-serial@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <discuss@en.tldp.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 3:55 PM
Subject: Maintainer needed for Serial-Programming-HOWTO


> I'm maintaining the Linux Documentation Project's Serial-HOWTO but it
> doesn't cover programming.  The Serial-Programming-HOWTO is supposed to
> cover this but it needs a lot of improvement.  Vern Hoxie rewrote it in
> 1999 but never submitted it.  Instead, a new maintainer took over an old
> 1997 version and essentially did nothing with it.  Even though the
> latest version is dated 2001, it's really just the 1997 version.  So it
> needs a new maintainer who will rework it and combine the two versions
> (the 1997 and Vern's 1999 which are very much different) or just redo
> the whole thing from scratch.  Any volunteers?
>
> You might argue that little has changed since 1997 which is true.  But
> the 1997 version omitted a number of introductory topics which needed to
> be included (and which Vern included).  However, on my last communication
> with Vern, he still refused to submit it (he didn't like having to use
> sgml format, especially DocBook and didn't want to maintain it in
> sgml format).  He actually wrote it in Linuxdoc Format but didn't like
> the rendering the "code" environment, etc.  Statements on the discussion
> list about the need to use DocBook and cvs turned him off.  And my
> personal contacts with him did no good.  So I'm not even Ccing him, in
> part because he is not currently active in discussion groups like he
> once was.  Fortunately, both versions use the same license so they may
> be merged.
> David Lawyer
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