Re: [DOCS] Re: [HACKERS] Outline for PostgreSQL book
Peter Eisentraut <e99re41@csd.uu.se>
From: Peter Eisentraut <e99re41@csd.uu.se>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Dmitry Samersoff <dms@wplus.net>, Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>, PostgreSQL-documentation <docs@postgreSQL.org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 1999-10-13T11:49:30Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> > 2BOOK Authors: > > Please, try to keep rights for translating this book into another > > languages by you self, not by publisher. > > > > > > I may ask some St.Pitersburg's publishing company > > to make russian translation of this book, but some publishers > > like O'Reilly have too hard license policy > > and too long reaction time. > > Actually, I want to make sure the book is accessible on the web. I will > keep your translation idea in mind. Good point. What about translating the regular docs first? Are you planning on using a lot of the existing documentation for the book? Perhaps one could organize the distributed documentation as a sort of abridged version of the official book, similar to what is being done with Perl. Just an idea. And what kind of timespan did you have in mind? I had the insane plan of providing a German documentation (at least the User's Guide) in time for 7.0. (big market) On the other hand, I have lots of insane plans ... -Peter