TLDP Weekly News

Issue Number : 1
Publication Date : 2003-05-06

Table of Contents
1. New documents
1.1. Fresh@LDP
1.2. Proposed new documents
1.3. Submitted for review
2. Updates
2.1. HOWTOs
2.2. Guides
3. Happenings in the LDP world
3.1. Comments on LDP Weekly News
3.2. One-page replacement for LDP-Author-Guide
3.3. Status of Lampadas
3.4. HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs under one roof
4. Feedback and Contributions

1. New documents

1.1. Fresh@LDP

One newcomer this week:


1.2. Proposed new documents


1.3. Submitted for review


2. Updates

2.1. HOWTOs


2.2. Guides


3. Happenings in the LDP world

Editorial Note: Due to unavoidable circumstances, The links in the discussions point only to http://lists.tldp.org and not to the archive mail link.


3.1. Comments on LDP Weekly News

Several people responded to the sample issue of LDP weekly news suggesting that the news be released to LWN, newsforge and linux.com. Saqib Ali talked about RSS feeds.


3.2. One-page replacement for LDP-Author-Guide

David Lawyer felt that the LDP-Author-Guide was too long and intimidating for most people thinking of writing a HOWTO. He posted a one page replacement for the same. Greg Ferguson posted his comments on the document.

The thread petered out in a different direction when Torsten Schlabach talked about WYSIWYG editing tools for DocBook but David Lawyer said that people would be turned off if they need to learn a new tool to write for the LDP. jdd indicated that he was not very pleased by the "switch" from LinuxDoc to DocBook upon which Greg Ferguson clarified that LDP still supports LinuxDoc.


3.3. Status of Lampadas

Derek Hans was wondering if Lampadas was still officially being continued. Guylhem Aznar clarified that David Merrill started a re-design of Lampadas because of serious issues it had. The last update on Lampadas was send in by David long ago. Nicolas Chauvat said that even though there was some work going on Lampadas using plone, David has not had time for it during the last six months.


3.4. HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs under one roof

Greg Ferguson wanted to find out if there were any objections to merging the mini-HOWTOs into the set of full HOWTOs. The structural boundaries (two sets of tar files, different directory etc.) are to be removed but authors can still use the term "mini HOWTO" in titles. People generally agreed that the two sets of HOWTOs need to be merged into one and that it would be easy for newbies to search for documentation.


4. Feedback and Contributions

Please help us create this weekly newsletter. Seen a site putting in a story with a link to the LDP? Completed the translation of any HOWTO? Know of any articles about the LDP published in newspapers or magazines? We are curious ;-). You can help us by sending in links and information at .

LDP Weekly News is edited by Machtelt Garrels, Torsten Schlabach and Y Giridhar Appaji Nag with help from several other people.