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On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:25:33 +0100
Matteo Riondato <rionda@gufi.org> wrote:

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> 
> I'm sorry but I cannot understand your point (this can be my poor
> english fault..). I'm talking about writing a Report, not about Vinum
> or in general software development. If neither of us two can
> understand what each commit means, we cannot write a report about the
> status of the project and we have to ask a developer to explain what
> he did. After that we could write our report.
> Regards
> -- 
> Rionda aka Matteo Riondato
> G.U.F.I Staff Member (http://www.gufi.org)
> BSD-FAQ-it Main Developer (http://www.gufi.org/~rionda)
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> Sent from: kaiser.sig11.org running FreeBSD-5.2-CURRENT
> 

My point was you do not need to understand 'everything' to write a
report. You just need to record what is going on, with enough
information for people to see who is doing what and where.