From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 19 6:49:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81A6537B400; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 06:49:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE66943E31; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 06:49:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.4/8.12.4) with SMTP id g6JDZ0Oo022474; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 09:35:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 09:35:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: "Brandon D. Valentine" Cc: Terry Lambert , Julian Elischer , developers@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Request for submissions: FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Development Status Report (fwd) In-Reply-To: <20020719013111.F18913-100000@dallben> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Robert Watson wrote: > > >I kid you not :-). About 40% of the SGML submissions I receive are broken > >in some form, despite a template that is correct. Usually it's unclosed > >tags, removal of a necessary tag, etc. If I had to guess, asking for > >nroff/mdoc submissions would result in a slightly higher success rate, as > >I suspect developers have a bit more experience with it, and also don't > >have to install a port to get syntax checking. > > Knowing my own inclinations if I were asked to go through the hassle of > composing an SGML document once a month which would encompass one measly > paragraph I'd probably be negligent of the duty more often that not. Ever read the template? This isn't exactly rocket science, and it's also not every month. No doubt a web form probably is the right way to go, and it now appears at least three people are writing one. :-) Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message