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Date:      Wed, 06 Nov 2002 13:25:34 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        alex@big.endian.de, silby@silby.com, kris@obsecurity.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, bmah@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 rl.4
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20021106132534.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021106130946.76170311.trhodes@FreeBSD.org>

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On 06-Nov-2002 Tom Rhodes wrote:
>> The second sentence is important, yes.  Of the first sentence, I can
>> see removing the comments about grammar and spelling, but I would
>> leave the information about missing information that that is important.
>> If a company makes sloppy hardware and sloppy documentation that says
>> more than a company that makes sloppy hardware but at least turns out
>> accurate documentation.  Maybe:
>> 
>> "The RealTek data sheets are of especially poor quality.  There is a
>>  lot of information missing, particularly concerning the receiver
>>  operation."
>> 
>> etc. (and add the second sentence back in).  This preserves complaints
>> about the lack of technical quality in the documentation w/o beating
>> up on RealTek for really stupid stuff (spelling, grammar, etc.).  This
>> should be restored at the very least if the entire commit is not reverted.
>> 
>> -- 
>> 
>> John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
>> "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!"  -  http://www.FreeBSD.org/
>> 
> 
> I can accept this request.  And will work on it after review of
> my mail.

Thanks.

-- 

John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
"Power Users Use the Power to Serve!"  -  http://www.FreeBSD.org/

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