On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 05:12:43PM -0400, Robert Cicconetti wrote:
On 4/19/05, Phil Hitchcock <phil@hitchcock99.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
PG already issues books with missing pages, e.g. #11866. However it is stated at the beginning that certain specified pages are missing, so the reader knows what to expect. If the currently best available copy of a text, which may be several hundred years old, is missing a few pages, well that is unfortunate; but surely it is better to give people the chance to read the 99% that is available. Our great museums do not say, this pot has a few chips in it so we will not exhibit it.
The main reason to avoid incomplete projects at DP is a lack of resources, both of skilled people and technical resources. In fact they go together; the Post Processing backlog at DP is causing a chronic shortage of disk space. If a project has to sit on the server ...
I'm posting here, in case discussion has stalled or this message didn't get to the right person previously: We're perpetually ready to acquire additional hardware for DP. I can also offer lots of off-site networked storage for backups, "holding" items, etc., etc. There have been numerous short discussions about this, but it sounds like most DP folks are busy doing other things, and haven't had cycles to work on expanding infrastructure. So, in case this helps, I want to reiterate that funding for DP's hardware/network/backups/storage infrastructure is available.
for 6 additional months waiting for 2 pages, that is not good. Also, by posting an incomplete work, you add to already heavy PP work load.
Just a quick note that for posted eBooks such errata/additions can go to the errata list (errata AT pglaf.org). They don't need to go back to the PPer (though in some cases they might need to). The errata team is also overworked, of course... If we do a lot of this, and it involves starting with OCR & proofreading, then I agree it's non-trivial no matter who gets the page scans. But if we can get the scan/page donor to supply proofread text, it's much easier. -- Greg