From gak at pobox.com  Mon Oct  3 00:18:29 2005
From: gak at pobox.com (Gary Klimowicz)
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 17:18:29 -0700
Subject: [lispfaq-devel] can I help?
Message-ID: <133B49D9-7E9D-471F-B4EB-65FE510D1D51@pobox.com>

Folks,

I've been increasingly concerned over the past couple of years about  
the state of the Lisp FAQ. Yesterday while cleaning out my files I  
ran across the hideously old version (the 7-part version that hadn't  
been touched since 1997) and thought I would take a look around and  
see if there was a new project. Lo and Behold! I found this.

I would like to help update this and bring the FAQ back to life. What  
can I do to help?

-- 
gak


From gak at pobox.com  Tue Oct  4 04:58:13 2005
From: gak at pobox.com (Gary Klimowicz)
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 21:58:13 -0700
Subject: [lispfaq-devel] can I help?
In-Reply-To: <87u0fy45oo.fsf@free.fr>
References: <133B49D9-7E9D-471F-B4EB-65FE510D1D51@pobox.com>
	<87u0fy45oo.fsf@free.fr>
Message-ID: <E8A4AA04-4AF6-4FAC-BA60-595D6FC51A04@pobox.com>

Eric,

Thanks for the prompt response. I will take a look around and see if  
I can help make a difference.

The site and your e-mail references a "<username>" at common- 
lisp.net. DO I need one? How do I get one?

Or is that something to deal with later?

-- 
gak


On Oct 3, 2005, at 3:05 PM, Eric Marsden wrote:

>>>>>> "gk" == Gary Klimowicz <gak at pobox.com> writes:
>>>>>>
>
>   gk> I've been increasingly concerned over the past couple of  
> years about
>   gk> the state of the Lisp FAQ. Yesterday while cleaning out my  
> files I
>   gk> ran across the hideously old version (the 7-part version that  
> hadn't
>   gk> been touched since 1997) and thought I would take a look  
> around and
>   gk> see if there was a new project. Lo and Behold! I found this.
>   gk>
>   gk> I would like to help update this and bring the FAQ back to  
> life. What
>   gk> can I do to help?
>
>   I'm afraid that both myself Christophe Rhodes (who started the
>   previous revival of the FAQ, on which the common-lisp.net version is
>   based) lack the energy necessary to improve the FAQ. Please feel
>   free to post patches to the sources, which you can access via CVS at
>
>     export CVS_RSH=ssh
>     cvs -z3 -d :ext:<username>@common-lisp.net:/project/lispfaq/ 
> cvsroot co lispfaq
>
>   The sources are encoded in the XML version of Docbook, and can be
>   transformed to HTML using Norman Walsh's stylesheets, via a command
>   something like
>
>     xsltproc -o $(TMPDIR)/ --path /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/ 
> nwalsh/xhtml faq.xsl faq.xml
>
>
>   I'd be very happy to see an up to date, useful and balanced cll  
> FAQ !
>
> -- 
> Eric Marsden
>
>
>