discuss: [tfox@redhat.com: HOWTO doc's in 7.3]
Subject:
Re: [tfox@redhat.com: HOWTO doc's in 7.3]
From:
Colin Watson ####@####.####
Date:
11 May 2002 17:07:16 -0000
Message-Id: <20020511170714.GD25204@arborlon.riva.ucam.org>
On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 12:09:52PM -0400, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 07:32:36AM -0700, David Lawyer wrote:
> > With hundreds of HOWTOs written by volunteers, it's to be expected
> > that there will be many errors, etc. But the solution is to contact
> > the maintainers and fix the errors, not to drop them from a major
> > distribution.
>
> In an ideal world it would be nice if all the distros participated
> here, and had some contact with the authors. I know Red Hat does this
> with non-documentation packages. They have someone assigned to that
> package that can make suggestions, or even help with distro related
> issues. But apparently they don't want to go this far with docs.
>
> And then there is the 'hearding cats' problem, and authors that don't
> respond to email, etc, so maybe they don't think its worth their time
> to actively participate.
Out of the 12 documentation bugs I've received and forwarded to authors,
the only one that has yet been fixed on the LDP's site was the one that
I fixed myself because the document was unmaintained. I think two or
three of my mails got acknowledgements from the author to the effect
that they'd be fixed soon.
Have I just been unlucky? I'm used to volunteer projects, but the
response rate seems pretty low.
--
Colin Watson ####@####.####
