"Jim" == Jim Adcock <jimad@msn.com> writes:
>> Everybody who wants to participate and is not afraid of RST and >> a VCS can Jim> send me their RSA public keys so I can give them SSH access Jim> to the repos. >> Everybody who thinks that RST and/or a VCS are bad ideas, is >> encouraged to Jim> implement their own (possibly better) ideas as an individual Jim> or a group. Just stop the fruitless complaining and get your Jim> act together. Jim> Seems like a bit of a silly comment, when you are literally Jim> holding the only keys to the door, and are allowing only your Jim> own ideas in. Jim> Open up the VCS to other languages and other approaches, so Jim> that the competing ideas can be compared next to your own.
"Lee" == Lee Passey <lee@novomail.net> writes:
Lee> On Thu, February 2, 2012 8:23 am, Jim Adcock wrote: >> Seems like a bit of a silly comment, when you are literally >> holding the only keys to the door, and are allowing only your >> own ideas in. Lee> This seems a bit harsh. I'm sure that if you asked nicely Lee> Mr. Perathoner would give you a shell account onto pglaf.org Lee> with enough rights to install any software you would like, Lee> including web-facing software. Remark however that the gatekeeper of pglaf is Greg, not Marcello, and his initial post says
"Greg" == Greg Newby <gbnewby@pglaf.org> writes:
................ Greg> I can think of several major details, and many minor ones. Greg> Concerns about copyright, spamming, whether anonymous edits Greg> are permitted, a review/revision/recision cycle, character Greg> sets, forking, searching, etc., etc. I would love to see Greg> multiple "master" files, created lovingly by hand in any or Greg> all of RST, LaTeX, or yfm (Your Favorite Markup) -- then Greg> allow users to select which master to use to generate their, Greg> say, EPUB. And, which tools to use for the conversion. Of Greg> course, people who wanted to lovingly craft an EPUB would be Greg> able to upload that, too. ................. So to me it seems that the gatekeeper promises to open the gates. Including the possibility of installing other toolchains besides gnutenberg Press (PGTEI) and epubmaker (PGRST). In particular, I plan to work on a LaTeX master towards the production of good HTML and epub. Carlo