discuss: Re: Beginning of outline for policies
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Re: Beginning of outline for policies
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19 May 2002 17:09:50 -0000
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well, shoot, I'd volunteer to edit also.
G
On Sun, 19 May 2002, Tabatha Persad wrote:
>Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 10:04:06 -0400
>From: Tabatha Persad ####@####.####
>To: ####@####.####
>Subject: Re: Beginning of outline for policies
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>On Sunday 19 May 2002 04:29, David Merrill wrote:
>> What we do not want is for an editor to edit a document without
>> coordinating with an active maintainer. That is just rude and
>> uncalled for.
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>I agree.
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>When I review/edit a document, I always send an edited COPY of the
>source document with my changes along with a diff text file so the
>author can see exactly what I've done.
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>Would just be great if they'd respond.
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>In response to those who think editing is unnecessary - or that
>editing should only take an hour - if it's that easy why isn't
>everybody volunteering? Why are the statistics as low as David
>Lawyer quoted for unedited documentation? This is a new process, and
>the 28 of us who volunteered (oddly I'm number 29) are trying as fast
>as our bandwidth will allow. I think the main problem has been lack
>of contact - authors not responding, at least in my experience.
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>I think this debate borders on silly. If editors aren't necessary,
>then why is much of the documentation out of date and hard to read?
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>Go compare the LDP's standards to those of KDE documentation. Have
>you seen the standards from them? Fortunately for KDE, having those
>standards allows their documentation to be distributed wherever KDE
>is. How many distros would that be again?
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>Tabatha
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