From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 19 08:14:25 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 6BCB716A418 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:14:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from mx-out-04.forthnet.gr (mx-out.forthnet.gr [193.92.150.104]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCB2D13C43E for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:14:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from mx-av-03.forthnet.gr (mx-av.forthnet.gr [193.92.150.27]) by mx-out-04.forthnet.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m0J6uGNM006149; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:56:16 +0200 Received: from MX-IN-04.forthnet.gr (mx-in-04.forthnet.gr [193.92.150.163]) by mx-av-03.forthnet.gr (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m0J6uG7m013729; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:56:16 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (ppp56-165.adsl.forthnet.gr [62.1.112.165]) by MX-IN-04.forthnet.gr (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m0J6uDdO023989; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:56:14 +0200 Authentication-Results: MX-IN-04.forthnet.gr smtp.mail=keramida@freebsd.org; spf=permerror Authentication-Results: MX-IN-04.forthnet.gr header.from=keramida@freebsd.org; sender-id=permerror Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m0J6uCoB058535; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:56:12 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m0J6uCXn058506; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:56:12 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:56:12 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Lars Engels Message-ID: <20080119065611.GA48167@kobe.laptop> References: <200801111917.m0BJHP8u018954@lurza.secnetix.de> <86y7av5fbt.fsf@ds4.des.no> <4788CFF9.30500@bsdforen.de> <20080118162722.GU47164@e.0x20.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080118162722.GU47164@e.0x20.net> Cc: Dominic Fandrey , 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: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:14:25 -0000 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. - Giorgos