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Date:      Mon, 26 Mar 2001 05:41:47 +0200
From:      Udo Erdelhoff <ue@nathan.ruhr.de>
To:        doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Translators: Need feedback on FAQ reorganization
Message-ID:  <20010326054147.D31676@nathan.ruhr.de>
In-Reply-To: <20010316190808.A389@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@freebsd.org on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 07:08:08PM %2B0000
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Hi,
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 07:08:08PM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 10:42:07AM +0000, Udo Erdelhoff wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 09:03:50PM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 08:03:37PM +0100, Udo Erdelhoff wrote:

> > > As already noted, you seem to have
> > > a good record of getting PRs committed.

> > That's no big surprise because I've learned to cheat: Find a committer,
> > pester him until he agrees to the proposed change, do the work, submit
> > the PR and voila, no more working for the trash can. No, that's not
> > the correct way to do things.

> That's certainly one way to do things.  Until we get more committers I
> wouldn't be surprised if it was quite an effective way.

It is effective - and it makes your "good record of getting PRs committed"
criterium absolutely worthless.
=20
> > right now I'm resting my case on the point that existing code is one of
> > the better arguments :->

> Attached is a diff to freebsd.dsl which rewrites Norm's
> xref-biblioentry function, and a diff to the FAQ to use it.

I'll take a close look at it (and the html codes it generates) once I've
managed to clean up the collateral damage caused by revision 1.155 of the
FAQ.

/s/Udo
--=20
"They had no guns and no ties. What's your excuse this time?"
"I had ammo."
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