From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 26 00:09:40 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C440E1065678; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:09:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vadim@nuclight.avtf.net) Received: from nuclight.avtf.net (208.88.188.90.adsl.tomsknet.ru [90.188.88.208]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEAC58FC1D; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:09:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kernblitz.nuclight.avtf.net (vadim@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nuclight.avtf.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p6PNg7WW076229; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 06:42:08 +0700 (NOVST) (envelope-from vadim@kernblitz.nuclight.avtf.net) Received: (from vadim@localhost) by kernblitz.nuclight.avtf.net (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p6PNg6Pn076226; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 06:42:06 +0700 (NOVST) (envelope-from vadim) Message-Id: <201107252342.p6PNg6Pn076226@kernblitz.nuclight.avtf.net> To: Daniel Gerzo From: Vadim Goncharov In-Reply-To: <4E0B0299.2020205@FreeBSD.org> References: <4E0B0299.2020205@FreeBSD.org> X-Comment-To: Daniel Gerzo Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 06:42:05 +0700 User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (FreeBSD) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: Call for FreeBSD Status Reports - 2Q/2011 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: vadim_nuclight@mail.ru List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:09:40 -0000 Hi Daniel Gerzo! On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:46:49 +0200; Daniel Gerzo wrote: > Do not hesitate and write us a few lines; a short description about > what you are working on, what your plans and goals are, or any other > information that you consider interested is always welcome. This way > we can inform our community about your great work! > Check out the reports from the past to get some inspiration of what > your submission should look like. [...] > Note that the submissions are accepted from anyone involved within the > FreeBSD community, you do not have to be a FreeBSD committer. Anything > related to FreeBSD can be covered. > Please email us the filled-in XML template which can be found at > http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-sample.xml to > monthly@FreeBSD.org, or alternatively use our web based form located at > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/monthly.cgi. A note for the future: you will tend to receive more submissions if you will make life a lot easier for submitter. The most natural way of using the aforementioned Web form - as, surprise, a Web form (BTW, the field to type in is too small and thus uncomfortable). That is, result of clicking "Submit" button must be immediately sending info to central base, requiring no further work from submitter to cut-n-paste the thing to e-mail. This is just frightening to everyone who is not a FreeBSD committer, with regard to needing to send this info to another e-mail which it suggests! (I was told that in IRC, and fro where has the Joe Random Contributor to know this?) We will have more docs when a contributor is not forced to efforts which are unneeded. Having to do such things which could be easily done on server-side looks just too unpolite for those who came in - and some of them will turn away from sending. P.S. This is general principle, not only for docs - forcing user to do something which could be already done by maintainer turns away from the system many of them. -- WBR, Vadim Goncharov. ICQ#166852181 mailto:vadim_nuclight@mail.ru [Moderator of RU.ANTI-ECOLOGY][FreeBSD][http://antigreen.org][LJ:/nuclight]