From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Lawyer Subject: Maintainer needed for Serial-Programming-HOWTO Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 14:55:19 -0800 Sender: linux-serial-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030327225519.GC1233@lafn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org To: linux-serial Cc: discuss@en.tldp.org 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