[ns] NS manual to wiki

[Tom Henderson]

Lachlan Andrew wrote:
> Greetings Tom,
> 
> It seems you're right that the main problem with maintaining the manual 
> is apathy rather than access, judging by the deafening silence in 
> response from your request for responses.
> 
> In that case, how can I get access to the manual to fix some of the errors?

The manual is written in Latex and is in the source distribution in the 
doc/ directory.  You can send documentation patches to me, or if you 
want to become a regular maintainer of this so you can commit changes 
yourself, please contact me.

> 
> Also, would it be possible to have a "beta" version of the manual as 
> well as the "stable" version?  That might help to push it towards the 
> wiki ideal of a work-in-continual-progress, without the labour of 
> changing the mark-up.
> 
> The beta could have both new contributions from newbies, to be checked 
> for accuracy by the veterans before inclusion, and also annotation such 
> as requests for clarification and draft documentation of new features.
> 

Yes, we could have a version posted that corresponded to the latest 
released version, and a "development" version that would become the 
release version for the next release.

The current development version is already built nightly and posted here:
http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/doc/index.html

By the way, anyone who wants to post patches, bugs, documentation 
patches, etc. is welcome to upload them to the nsnam (ns-2 and nam-1) 
tracker:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=149743

- Tom