Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:21:08 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1017078014.aba542@mired.org> Cc: darklogik@pittgoth.com, swear@blarg.net, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/36042: [PATCH] There's not a good description of shared builds in the handbook Message-ID: <20020320182108.GB414@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <15512.51581.789216.308497@guru.mired.org> References: <200203192120.g2JLK3o17280@freefall.freebsd.org> <mfr8mf98vb.8mf@localhost.localdomain> <15512.3992.905972.279159@guru.mired.org> <20020320000727.284a00c1.darklogik@pittgoth.com> <15512.44867.930654.886921@guru.mired.org> <3C98C11E.30902@pittgoth.com> <15512.51581.789216.308497@guru.mired.org>
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On 2002-03-20 11:40, Mike Meyer wrote:
> In <3C98C11E.30902@pittgoth.com>, Tom Rhodes <darklogik@pittgoth.com> typed:
> > It is also a tad bit easier for translaters... If you really want to
> > propose a large arguement, then just look at it like this, in the doc
> > project we use two spaces as a set standard for the documents we
> > produce. We have followed this for awhile now, if we let everyone
> > submit under any standard, we would have some ugly looking documentation.
>
> The doc project accepts text that isn't even marked up. If the doc
> project committers can mark up text, I think they can "fix" text that
> doesn't adhere to what the author thinks is an antiquated standard.
> If they can't, they can close the PR, and leave this activity
> undocumented until someone comes along who'll leap through all the doc
> project hurdles to write it up.
Guys guys. We'd better spend our time in writing more useful docs.
Of course the committer who takes care of a PR is supposed to look at the
text of the submission and 'fix' it accordingly. I've done it a few times.
I've seen it done, more than a few times too.
Can we please drop this?
Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/
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