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    <othername>$Author: randy $</othername>
    <date>$Date: 2007-04-03 16:00:09 -0400 (Tue, 03 Apr 2007) $</date>
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  <title>Welcome to the BLFS Editor's Manual</title>
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  <para>This guide is designed to be a friendly introduction to BLFS
  editing.</para>

  <para>This document covers a few things. First, basic administrative issues
  like accessing <application>Subversion</application> over
  <application>SSH</application>, committing changes, and the BLFS logging
  policy are covered. Then a little bit of general BLFS policy is briefly
  discussed.</para>

  <para>This document is intended to be helpful not only to all of the
  (co)editors but also to anyone thinking about contributing to BLFS.</para>

  <para>Mark Hymers <userinput>&lt;markh@linuxfromscratch.org&gt;</userinput></para>
  <para>Bruce Dubbs <userinput>&lt;bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org&gt;</userinput></para>

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