From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Procedure for changing the FAQ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 23:06:39 +0300 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <1438-Wed23Apr2003230638+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> References: <7680-Wed23Apr2003121503+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051129409 5560 80.91.224.249 (23 Apr 2003 20:23:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 20:23:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 23 22:23:26 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 198Qki-0001JM-00 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 22:22:00 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 198Qqc-0007Zs-00 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 22:28:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 198Qi4-0005U2-08 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 16:19:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 198QhA-00054b-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 16:18:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 198Qgc-0004hE-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 16:17:47 -0400 Original-Received: from aragorn.inter.net.il ([192.114.186.23]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 198QZK-00028C-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 16:10:14 -0400 Original-Received: from zaretsky (tony08-235-245.inter.net.il [80.230.235.245] (may be forged)) by aragorn.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.2.2-GA) with ESMTP id AMP25263; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 23:09:10 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: (message from Glenn Morris on Wed, 23 Apr 2003 19:37:57 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:13403 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13403 > From: Glenn Morris > Mail-Followup-To: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 19:37:57 +0100 > > But at the top of the current FAQ it says: > > If you have any suggestions or questions, please contact the FAQ > maintainers . > > I guess that should be changed to M-x report-emacs-bug for > suggestions Indeed. It's been a long time since the FAQ started to be maintained by the Emacs project per se, so I guess it's time to change that line. > What's the best way to get changes made to > http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/? One of the FAQ links is > out-of-date. Is mailing webmasters@www.gnu.org the best thing? The right way is to modify that page via CVS. gnu.org sysadmins will need to set you up for write access to that part of the GNU CVS. > Similarly for updating the text version > > http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-faq.text Same answer. > What's the best way to make plain text from Texinfo? Use "makeinfo --no-headers --output=emacs-faq.text". > Should a FAQ be posted to gnu.emacs.help on a regular basis? I know a > lot of newsgroups that regularly post FAQ lists. I think the Emacs FAQ is way too large for this. (Reuven Lerner used to post the FAQ regularly in several parts, but I always found that to be annoying.)