Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:19:57 +0000 From: David Murphy <drjolt@redbrick.dcu.ie> To: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: How to actually make a difference (Re: dot-0 releases) Message-ID: <20000322171957.L48595@enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003220856410.38400-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>; from kris@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 09:01:46AM -0800 References: <20000322165223.K48595@enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003220856410.38400-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Quoting <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003220856410.38400-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> by Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>: > On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, David Murphy wrote: > With all the wastage of words on this topic, you (and others) could > have written the simple patches to the documentation which clarify > the "upgrading from source" issues and any others you may have. The > doc committers don't have some god-given mandate on system > documentation, you know. Yes, at this point, we have certainly spent more time discussing than it would have taken to just fix the manual, *however*... > The first draft might not be acceptable to everyone, but it would be > a start, and it would be a hell of a lot more constructive than just > saying "something should be done to improve the documentation, by > god". ...it would be a damn sight more constructive to say "What you've done isn't what we recommend you do. Unfortunately, the documentation does not yet reflect our current recommendations. If you write up your experiences, we'll incorporate them into the documentation" instead of saying "Fool! Don't you know the way we do things here?". Basically, if people considered what was and was not currently in the handbook before flaming, you wouldn't have people complaining that they were flamend because the manual's not up to date. -- When asked if it is true that he uses his wheelchair as a weapon he will reply: "That's a malicious rumour. I'll run over anyone who repeats it." Stephen Hawking - [http://www.smh.com.au/news/0001/07/features/features1.html] David Murphy - For PGP public key, send mail with Subject: send-pgp-key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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