Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 03:03:22 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Default FDP docs installation directory? Message-ID: <1171.935316202@localhost> In-Reply-To: Your message of "22 Aug 1999 02:43:33 PDT." <vqcemgwm9q1.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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Erm, I really don't like to see this kind of thing... People who both do good work ripping into one another leaves the audience rather unsure of how to react, and those being ripped into don't much enjoy the experience either. I think this has all come about through misunderstanding rather than malice and if people are getting "angry" then they already need to go take walks before coming back and attempting to communicate in public. We are all experienced enough to know the poor results generated by angry posts. Nik has just put in a large amount of work here and I would like to just return our attention to that fact for a moment while those who don't like his methods attempt to make it sound as if there was nothing good about the conversion or reorganization work. There was a lot of necessary work done here, from both a tools and a content standpoint, and if the look-and-feel isn't spot-on the first iteration or two, well, that's easily evolved. I'm also sure that Nik has no intention of leaving tools for formating the various translations broken, considering how much work he's put into packaging the translations in a more flexible fashion lately. I think this is simply yet another communications break-down, perhaps on both sides, and there's no reason to accuse Nik of lying or otherwise being anything but *confused* about how much communication had or had not occurred. Just knowing how much dust has had to be blown out of the Handbook and FAQ documents lately (and still remains to be blown out), I'd say anybody with enough guts to really start reorganizing our completely dysfunctional docset deserves kudos, not rocks. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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