Re: [gnugo-devel] Publishing manual for GNU Go

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> I am the Managing Editor for the GNU Press, the publishing department
> of the Free Software Foundation. I recently came across the manual for
> GNU Go and was very impressed by it.  I am thinking about publishing
> it.
> 
> Who is the current maintainer for the manual itself?  I saw edition
> 3.2, dated April 2002.  Is there a later edition of the manual or any
> planned updates?  Are any of the developers intersted in helping me
> prepare it for publication?  I will need to send it through at least
> two rounds of editing, both English and Technical, before I could
> print it.

The latest edition is 3.4. It is in the gnugo-3.4 tarball
(which is now at ftp.gnu.org).

I sort of doubt that it is appropriate to publish it as a book.
The program is very much in flux so the documentation becomes
quickly out of date. Moreover the market for it will be rather
small.

Daniel Bump