I think you're talking about a major technical challenge for the DP developersto undertake something like that, even if there weren't as much highly
vocal opposition as there is. There hasn't even been a single response
from the developers about assisting with a transfer to the PG site. Or
from anyone else with significant authority there.
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Al Haines (shaw)
<ajhaines@shaw.ca> wrote:
Would it not be simpler for DP itself to have a Pre-releases page, similar to its Smooth-Read page?
I would think that if pre-releases are copied from DP into some PG environment, similar to Preprints, there would need to be some coordination to remove them from that environment when they're posted into PG as finished products.
Al
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@pglaf.org>
To: "Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion" <gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 1:21 PM
Subject: [gutvol-d] Re: the d.p. opinion on "prerelease" of e-texts
I can tell you that both Greg Newby, our CEO, and myself,
are most definitely FOR doing such prereleases!!!
We are prepared to start making directories for them and
getting them loaded in as soon as we have permission.
We would put up a number of disclaimers abou them to put
a protective system up for DP and various volunteers.
We would appreciate any opportuty to do this with any of
the three sections of books mentioned earlier.
Many thanks!!!
Michael
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Lee Passey wrote:
On 2/24/2010 12:37 PM, cmiske@ashzfall.com wrote:
[snip]
> The more I think about it, the more I feel that it would actually be
> rather nice to see something along the lines of the 'roundless
> experiment' produce decent quality 'first release' books and then have
> people nitpick them to 'perfection' later. The point would be the > format
> of storage so that the rough version could be compared to the original
> scans and corrections/updates be done with ease. Also, if a book is
> backlogged at DP, it would make sense to have a method for someone
> outside of DP to adopt the book and finish it.
I agree with you completely, and what you have described is what bowerbird has
been agitating for for many years now. A book would go into 'first release'
when the number of changes in the roundless system dropped below a certain
rate. It would then go into general distribution in a system that allowed
"continuous proofreading" in a wiki-like system
Good luck in convincing either DP or PG to adopt these kind of reforms.
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