From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <199910141814.OAA26045@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [DOCS] Business Plan for PostgreSQL book?
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	"Oct 14, 1999 09:07:12 am"
To: "Henry B. Hotz" <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 14:14:02 -0400 (EDT)
CC: "Clark C. Evans" <clark.evans@manhattanproject.com>,
	PostgreSQL-documentation <docs@postgresql.org>
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> >If its a group project, I assume you are the "owner"
> >of the "uber-contract" until it sells to a book
> >publisher.  To do this right, you would divide
> >this contract into small peices, or sub-contracts.
> >Then, as people contribute, their time is tracked
> >against these components.  Right now, for instance,
> >you have a book-outline project which people are
> >working on; it could be decided that the book-outline
> >sub contract is worth ".5%" of the book ownership.
> >Then, as people track their time against these
> >sub-contracts, a summary (once a week) is presented
> >to you (the owner of the contract) for approval
> >of their hours.  If approved, then the contributer
> 
> The way this is normally done is to do a page or word count of the finished
> product.  Each author owns a "chapter".  The editor negotiates with the
> publisher and takes a cut off the top.  Counting time is a bad idea IMHO.
> Too much uncertainty and inequity.
> 
> Of course in this case there is a lot of pre-existing text which makes
> counting pages hard.  Is there any way we can make this whole thing owned
> by postgresql.org and just use the proceeds for the project?  I haven't
> been tracking the legal status.

The first two chapters are Intro/History, like the one I wrote for the
BSD magazine, and chapter 2 is using psql, which is all new.

We really don't have much hand-holding stuff.  Chapters 1-4 are going to
be all new.  The later chapters may use some existing stuff.

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