Re: [lispfaq-devel] can I help?

-- gak On Oct 3, 2005, at 3:05 PM, Eric Marsden wrote: >>>>>> "gk" == Gary Klimowicz gak@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 > > >