Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 03:50:09 -0800 (PST) From: Andrew McKay <andy@openirc.co.uk> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/32818: [PATCH] - Formal Text for /docproj/who.html Message-ID: <200112141150.fBEBo9925367@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/32818; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Andrew McKay <andy@openirc.co.uk> To: Hiten Pandya <hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/32818: [PATCH] - Formal Text for /docproj/who.html Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 11:53:06 +0000 (GMT) On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Hiten Pandya wrote: HP> >Severity: serious HP> >Priority: high How do you justify this classification? Just wondering. To me a serious/high-priority change is one where the documentation may be misleading enough to cause a user to damage their system or render it unbootable. HP> If you like the patch, submit it, dont like it? comment on it. :-) Comments below: HP> <p>Some of us can commit changes directly to the FreeBSD documentation HP> ! tree. The complete list of people with commit ``privileges'' can be HP> ! found in the <a href="../handbook/staff-doc.html">Handbook</a>.</p> I'd be inclined to lose the ``'' around privileges. To my mind they exist around privs to indicate that it is a slang term. HP> ! <p>The general public does not have commit privilges, but they write and HP> ! <b>submit documentation</b> nonetheless. Once the documenation has been HP> ! submitted according to the procedure layed out on the HP> ! <a href="submitting.html"><b>Submitting Documentation</b></a> page, it will HP> ! be noticed by one of the committers and will be reviewed & committed. HP> ! </p> I would phrase this as: <p>Members of the project who do not have commit privileges can contribute by <b>submitting documentation</b>. Details of how to do this are available on the <a href="submitting.html"><b>Submitting Documentation</b></a> page. Once the submission is received it will be reviewed & committed as appropriate.</p> Not sure about the need for <b> tags in there but they won't hurt, I guess. Just my comments, as per your request. -- Andrew McKay <andy@openirc.co.uk> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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