Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:18:22 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> To: Oresamachan <oresamachan@mtf.biglobe.ne.jp> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Re[2]: Japanese FAQ on the Web is broken Message-ID: <199908261618.MAA09188@sable.cc.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <37C562D5280.4883ORESAMACHAN@cosmo.jah.ne.jp>
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On 26-Aug-99 Oresamachan wrote: > Matsushita-san, > > Check your "From:" :-) > >> I'm very sad that why we cannot not avoid current >> situation. Miss-character-conversion may be checked EASILY BEFORE >> commiting the results. > > Everybody makes mistake. > According to my experience, non-asian user does not understand "encoding > systems" easily. > That is not so big fault if that is corrected immediately. > > The problem is Bill's ridiculous posting. > Does he understand the problem is serious? > > Some industrious man developed a program. > Unfortunately, there was a serious bug on it and a user pointed out. > > Is this a negative energy??? > Maybe Bill is sleeping right now. At least, I hope so. > > TER Software Develop > (e-mail: oresamachan@mtf.biglobe.ne.jp) <rant> Here is the problem I think Bill was getting at. Nik's plan for the doc/ reorganization was thrashed out on this list months ago, and he and several others have worked very hard to implement it. Now, he's only human, and its not going to be 100% perfect the first time around. However, if you read the archives for -doc/ you will notice that almost every time somebody started griping and complaining about a glitch or a proposed claim, it was the Japanese team that was jumping up and down while all the other translations worked to make the change. The notable exception to this was the recent /usr/local/share/doc/fdp vs. /usr/share/doc issue. That is the problem: the French group hasn't been yelling or jumping up and down about this transition, neither has the Spanish group or the Russian group. Instead, they have accepted the few bumps in the road and worked through them. On the other hand, from what we can see on the -doc list the Japanese team does not follow this. Is it any suprise many of us are tired of seeing complaints from *.jp? The documentation doesn't revolve around English, Spanish, or any other language, including Japanese. There are going to be little problems here and there, but the proper response at this point in time is to suck it up and see if you can fix it. Once you do, submit a PR, don't just gripe to this list. Note that many of us cannot read Japanese, so we don't know it's necessarily broken, nor are we in a good place to fix it. This is a volunteer project and its your turn to contribute! </rant> --- John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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