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 To Do List - Open Tasks 

item submitted task status / comments
1 2000-Jan-28 Ask the maintainer of the Pedia to join LDP, if not we should add a link to his page. open
2 2000-Jan-28 An idea from IMDB, add links to "related topics"; for instance for the Multi Disk HOWTO the Partitioning-, Partition Rescue-, and Large Disk-HOWTO are relevant. Again, links to Usenet News FAQs could also be relevant. open
3 2000-Jan-28 Get the rest of the HOWTOs registered with Freshmeat open
4 2000-Jan-28 Run an automated robot to look for broken links in documents. open; ongoing. Currently, this is done periodically for mirror sites to determine if active and/or outdated. Need to do the same against all the various links we have.
5 2000-Jan-28 Approach the various distribution compilers to join this mailing list, and persuade them to keep fresh LDP HOWTO archives in their errata section. open
6 2000-Feb-07 Make a framework test case for man page stubs from a HOWTO underway, will be posted to the ldp-discuss mailinglist
7 2000-Feb-08 Find someone to update the guide "The Linux Kernel" to be based on a more recent kernel. open; please email ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org if you are interested in this project.

updated 2000-Jun-8:
I would like to maintain the KERNAL-HOWTO and bring changes as per latest linux version, email Lilytanmoy@id.eth.net.
8 2000-Feb-09 Make a list of HOWTOs and other docs that need to be remaintained or written. updated 2000-Jul-21:
In the Authors area we have lists of those documents that require marks (to SGML) and those that are unmaintained. We are looking for someone to add-to and/or populate the "unmaintained" list. Please help!
9 2000-Feb-09 Put news and updates on news.linuxdoc.org leaving www.linuxdoc.org and linuxdoc.org with links to documentation sections and descriptions prominently placed. open
10 2000-Feb-15 Make a proper index.html file for each of the LDP subdirectories. Make a text file (README) describing the layout of the LDP files, to accompany the archive open
11 2000-Feb-15 Add a ticker service to the web site open
12 2000-Mar-6 Add an archive of the info pages (from gnu info) updated 2000-Apr-27:
and Man Pages.
13 2000-Mar-6 Provide more linux programming information for those developers that want to support linux by writing programs. open
14 2000-Apr-27 Build a book for all HOWTOs Joshua Drake -poet-
15 2000-Apr-27 Add a list of uncorrected bugs. open
16 2000-Apr-27 Create troubleshooting guide & HOWTOs.

Re: Ciscos excellent troubleshooting docs: http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/itg_v1/index.htm.
Usage:read before post/message to newsgroup/mailing list - also to make correct info available for support
open
17 2000-May-8 Cleanup/provide a decent "Authors" area : author's guide, tools / packages, templates, stylesheets, etc. updated 2000-Jul-21:
We have established an Authors area. The LDP Author Guide and templates (in LinuxDoc DTD and DocBook DTD) added; amongst other items of interest to authors.
18 2000-May-8 Get the CVS repository fully-functional. updated 2000-Jul-21:
Documents are being checked-in and out without problems. We need to build a processing environment around the CVS repository.
19 2000-May-8 Setup feedback mechanism for documents (back to authors/LDP). open
20 2000-May-8 Make sure we have SGML instances for all documents (mark-up assistance is needed!). open
21 2000-May-8 Provide a browse-by-category mechanism (ie Networks -> modems, etc). open
22 2000-May-8 Add decent metadata for all the entries in the LDP. Based on OMF (http://metalab.unc.edu/osrt/omf/).

Tie this search/browse capability into the LDP.
first set done, needs to be updated.

updated 2000-Jul-21:
Added a link in the search box.

23 2000-May-8 Integrate a more flexible search engine; take advanatge (index) the DocBook/Linuxdoc SGML, not just the HTML document instances. open
24 2000-May-8 Set up a Linux machine so authors could log in and compile their documentation there, always sure the software is the very latest release. Joshua Drake -Poet-
25 2000-Jun-22 Create a NCURSES HOWTO open
26 2000-Jul-26 secure shell (CVS) open


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