Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 05:09:23 -0600 From: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net> To: opentrax@email.com Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/22042: spelling error Message-ID: <20001112050923.C7123@peorth.iteration.net> In-Reply-To: <200011121100.DAA10798@freefall.freebsd.org>; from opentrax@email.com on Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 03:00:03AM -0800 References: <200011121100.DAA10798@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 03:00:03AM -0800, opentrax@email.com scribbled: | The following reply was made to PR docs/22042; it has been noted by GNATS. | From: opentrax@email.com | To: ben@FreeBSD.org | Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, bugs@xfree86.org | On 11 Nov, Ben Smithurst wrote: | > opentrax@email.com wrote: | >> Mis-spelling in XF86Config(4/5) man page. | >> Bottom of page 6, next to last paragraph | >> says "wsouse"; should say "wsmouse". | > This isn't a FreeBSD manual page, so I don't think there's much we can | > do about it. You'd probably be better off reporting the problem to the | > XFree86 Project. | > I'll close this PR soon unless anyone objects. | I think I'll object. | | I'm just wondering, isn't there a way to passing this bug | directly to the XFree86 group? Yes, you can email the XFree86 group yourself, just like you sent a PR. | This bug/mis-spelling is just something that needs to be | corrected. It's minor; we can both agree on that, but | passing the buck puts in the same boat as some poor | commercial software (M$). No, it is called seperation of tasks and the open source development models. | This leads me to ask should we really pass the buck, or Yes, the XFree86 developers would know how to fix it. | should we as the best OS on the internet, perhaps, find | a way to improve on the system and get this resolved? There is a way, and Ben stated it. | After all, this seems to be a most trival case. Exactly, and since the solution (emailing the developers who wrote the man page) is so simple, we should not make it more complicated. Ben stated why and how to fix it in his original reply. -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@peorth.iteration.net | keichii@bsdconspiracy.net | | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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