[cl-faq] Publicly releasing the CL FAQ: still a good idea

[Peter Seibel]

On Sep 2, 2006, at 6:22 AM, Paolo Amoroso wrote:

> As I wrote here last May:
>
>   Releasing the CL FAQ and making it more widely known
>   http://www.lispniks.com/pipermail/cl-faq/2006-May/000127.html
>
> I still think that it would be a good idea to release the CL FAQ
> mostly as is, and give it wider dissemination by posting monthly
> reminders to comp.lang.lisp, where newbies arrive sooner or later, as
> it used to be done in the good old days.
>
> Having an incomplete or possibly inaccurate FAQ is much better than a
> project perceived as dead.

Since you bring it up, I guess I might as well let everyone here  
know--I'm going to be handing off the FAQ to someone else: I've got a  
baby due this month and after that I'm planning to be doing some non- 
computer related writing. I've asked Larry Clapp if he'd be  
interested in taking over the project and encouraged him to follow  
your idea--put it up on c-l.net or Google projects or whatever and  
figure out a light weight process for letting other folks contribute  
and edit it. He also suggested that you might be a good person to do  
this--if you're interested I can send you a tar of the current FAQ  
source files and code for generating the HTML versions and you can  
put it up somewhere and coordinate the effort. Though you should  
probably get in touch with Larry as I already sent him the tar and he  
may be doing something with it as we speak.

I hope to get the project cleanly handed off and then I and the new  
maintainer can announce the transition on the main Gardeners list.

-Peter

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