Re: Maintainer needed for Serial-Programming-HOWTO

[Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>]

David Lawyer:
> [...] 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?

I had a look on the version shown on en.tldp.org.
Looks nice and cosy.

However, I never saw the new 1999-stuff from Vern.
And and on the few occasions I toyed with serial programming I read
http://www.easysw.com/~mike/serial, not the HOWTO.

> [...] 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. 

Not sure whether you are searching a programmer or SGML maintainer.
I am a regular user of minicom, but never seriously fed anything than
a socket to select(2).

I feel confident to solve DocBook issues, though.
There are two things I don't like about Serial-Programming-HOWTO.sgml
on http://cvsview.tldp.org/

1. It is a single file.
   I prefer separate sect1 referenced as system entities.
   But then the whole thing is just 837 lines, real cosy ...

2. The code examples are written inline with <screen>
   This is madness. It it absolutely required to make that
  
      <programlisting><inlinemediaobject><imageobject><imagedata
        format="linespecific"
        fileref="example.c"
      /></imageobject></inlinemediaobject></programlisting

   and perhaps wrap a Makefile around that to actually compile and
   test example.c.

Well, I'd do it if I get a separate directory in CVS.
And if you give me a few weeks time.
And if nobody with more programming experience claims it.

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