From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 20 22:24:16 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CE1216A417; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:24:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kamikaze@bsdforen.de) Received: from mail.bsdforen.de (bsdforen.de [212.204.60.79]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC15713C447; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:24:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kamikaze@bsdforen.de) Received: from homeKamikaze.norad (nat-wh-1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de [129.13.72.169]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.bsdforen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40C7F405CBA; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:24:14 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4793CA0C.6010007@bsdforen.de> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:24:12 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071203) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giorgos Keramidas References: <200801111917.m0BJHP8u018954@lurza.secnetix.de> <86y7av5fbt.fsf@ds4.des.no> <4788CFF9.30500@bsdforen.de> <20080118162722.GU47164@e.0x20.net> <20080119065611.GA48167@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <20080119065611.GA48167@kobe.laptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Lars Engels , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:24:16 -0000 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2008-01-18 17:27, Lars Engels wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 03:34:33PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >>> If you mean by disconnected the people who appear once and ask >>> something that can be answered by telling them to read a certain >>> chapter in the handbook or one of the 120 HowTos we have written and >>> collected (I have offered to the doc-mailing list to translate some >>> to English, but that has been ignored), >> Why do you need to ask first? Do you think that it would have been >> rejected if you presented a translated version? > > Fair point. I think that 120 'article-like' additions to our existing > article collection stand a pretty good chance of including a *lot* of > useful material. > > It would be a bit silly to reject an offer like that because it was > written by 'disconnected' people. > > Dominic, if you get some (or evel all?) of these howtos translated to > English, I offer my help to get them integrated into our doc tree. The offer still stands, so thank you. I'll be selective about what I translate and I'm just at the beginning of my exam session, so you'll need some patience before I've got anything to show off.