Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 14:56:29 -0500 From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: patch for opinions Message-ID: <20020308145629.A68153@blackhelicopters.org>
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--TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Folks, I was reading the "contributing" article, and my literary sensibilities were completely offended. This section is guilty of overuse of exclamation ponits and the word "also", as well as miscellaneous inefficiencies in writing. Attached please find a patch for the first section of articles/contributing. (Not closely checked for whitespace gratuitousness, mind you.) I see a potential here to open a big can o'worms, worms called "wasted effort," "conflict of writing styles," and "hurt feelings because Michael's picking on someone's writing skills when we should be happy to just have docs at all, damn it!". I'm perfectly happy to hear that this is a non-issue, mind you, but I can see this sort of thing either hurting feelings or setting a precedent the Project doesn't want set. Thoughts? ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org my FreeBSD column: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ --TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="contributing.patch" Index: article.sgml =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/article.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.474 diff -c -r1.474 article.sgml *** article.sgml 18 Feb 2002 03:06:39 -0000 1.474 --- article.sgml 8 Mar 2002 19:46:28 -0000 *************** *** 32,66 **** </articleinfo> <indexterm><primary>contributing</primary></indexterm> ! <para>So you want to contribute something to FreeBSD? That is great! We can ! always use the help, and FreeBSD is one of those systems that ! <emphasis>relies</emphasis> on the contributions of its user base in order to survive. Your contributions are not only appreciated, they are vital ! to FreeBSD's continued growth!</para> ! <para>Contrary to what some people might also have you believe, you do not need to be a hot-shot programmer or a close personal friend of the FreeBSD ! core team in order to have your contributions accepted. The FreeBSD ! Project's development is done by a large and growing number of ! international contributors whose ages and areas of technical expertise ! vary greatly, and there is always more work to be done than there are ! people available to do it.</para> <para>Since the FreeBSD project is responsible for an entire operating ! system environment (and its installation) rather than just a kernel or a few scattered utilities, our <filename>TODO</filename> list also spans a very wide range of tasks, from documentation, beta testing and ! presentation to highly specialized types of kernel development. No matter what your skill level, there is almost certainly something you can do to ! help the project!</para> <para>Commercial entities engaged in FreeBSD-related enterprises are also ! encouraged to contact us. Need a special extension to make your product work? You will find us receptive to your requests, given that they are not ! too outlandish. Working on a value-added product? Please let us know! We may be able to work cooperatively on some aspect of it. The free software world is challenging a lot of existing assumptions about how software is ! developed, sold, and maintained throughout its life cycle, and we urge you to at least give it a second look.</para> <sect1 id="contrib-what"> --- 32,66 ---- </articleinfo> <indexterm><primary>contributing</primary></indexterm> ! <para>So you want to contribute to FreeBSD? That is great! ! FreeBSD ! <emphasis>relies</emphasis> on the contributions of its user base to survive. Your contributions are not only appreciated, they are vital ! to FreeBSD's continued growth.</para> ! <para>Contrary to what some people might have you believe, you do not need to be a hot-shot programmer or a close personal friend of the FreeBSD ! core team to have your contributions accepted. ! A large and growing number of ! international contributors, of greatly varying ages and areas of technical expertise, develop FreeBSD. ! There is always more work to be done than there are ! people available to do it, and more help is always appreciated.</para> <para>Since the FreeBSD project is responsible for an entire operating ! system environment rather than just a kernel or a few scattered utilities, our <filename>TODO</filename> list also spans a very wide range of tasks, from documentation, beta testing and ! presentation to the system installer and highly specialized types of kernel development. No matter what your skill level, there is almost certainly something you can do to ! help the project.</para> <para>Commercial entities engaged in FreeBSD-related enterprises are also ! encouraged to contact us. Do you need a special extension to make your product work? You will find us receptive to your requests, given that they are not ! too outlandish. Are you working on a value-added product? Please let us know! We may be able to work cooperatively on some aspect of it. The free software world is challenging a lot of existing assumptions about how software is ! developed, sold, and maintained, and we urge you to at least give it a second look.</para> <sect1 id="contrib-what"> --TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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