Fwd: SVK Book
Brian W. Fitzpatrick
fitz at red-bean.com
Tue Jul 19 10:30:25 CDT 2005
Dudes. This rocks. Can we host the code and the svkbook on red-
bean? Please?
Docs! For svk! I mean, come on! :P)
-Fitz
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Michael Brouwer <michael at tlaloc.net>
> Date: July 18, 2005 9:40:45 AM PDT
> To: svnbook at red-bean.com
> Cc: clkao at clkao.org
> Subject: SVK Book
>
>
> Ben, Brian, and C. Michael,
>
> After some encouragement from Chia-liang Kao and an AIM
> conversation with Brian, I've decided to start working on a book
> for SVK. Just as SVK draws on much of Subversion itself, it made
> sense that an SVK book would draw on the Subversion book.
>
> So clkao set up a repository and I started off by with a copy of
> r1550 of the Subversion book repository. Then I striped it down to
> just the English version of the Subversion book and it's build system.
>
> In the last few days or so I've completed about 25% of chapter 09
> (the reference documentation). Some other people from the SVK
> community have shown interest in helping take the book forward.
>
> In the end I'm hoping that very little of the original Subversion
> book's content will be left, since for those parts of the book
> where the content would be identical to the Subversion book, it
> makes more sense for us to refer to the Subversion book.
>
> This email is both to inform you of what we are doing and to ask
> you how you, as the original Subversion book authors wish to be
> attributed in the new book, as well as what to do with regards to
> the copyright information. Right now you three are still listed as
> the primary authors, which since 95% of the book is unchanged makes
> sense. But as the book progresses I'm hoping we will have kept
> mostly only the structure and build system setup from the original
> book.
>
> Finally Brian and I toyed with the idea of possible hosting the new
> book on red-bean and potentially as a branch of the current
> subversion book in the same repository, or in it's own repository
> (right now it's in svn://svn.clkao.org/svkbook). I'll let clkao
> jump in here too since ultimately I don't really care where it gets
> hosted at, as long as the SVK community gets a book to let them use
> SVK.
>
> Michael L.H. Brouwer
>
>
>
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