discuss: Al Devs HOWTOs (was Re: Is PHP-HOWTO some kind of joke ?)
Subject:
Re: Al Devs HOWTOs (was Re: Is PHP-HOWTO some kind of joke ?)
From:
John Levon ####@####.####
Date:
12 Nov 2003 15:41:10 -0000
Message-Id: <20031112154101.GB86120@compsoc.man.ac.uk>
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:00:32PM -0800, David Lawyer wrote:
> > I'm not sure about the other readers out there, but it makes me uneasy
> > when documents cease to be evaluated on the basis of their merits and
> > are instead judged by only the <author> tag.
>
> This is an unusual case. But it turns out that others have recently
> been motivated to look over some of his other HOWTOs, and they also turn
> out to be unacceptable.
I firmly agree that is it not suitable behaviour to discard a HOWTO
based solely on the author. This is why I took a moment to point out
some concrete problems with three of the existing HOWTOs, Cc:ing Al Dev.
It is my opinion that this is the minimum that should be done for *each*
HOWTO before it is removed. It doesn't take very long; somebody else
want to finish up ?
regards
john
