From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 12 14:37:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86AAA16A41F for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:37:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joel@automatvapen.se) Received: from av10-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (av10-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 169A043D49 for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:37:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joel@automatvapen.se) Received: by av10-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 745B637E9B; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:37:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp4-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (smtp4-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.93]) by av10-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15B6237E9B; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:37:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from t12o55p108.telia.com (t12o55p108.telia.com [81.225.222.228]) by smtp4-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E75437E47; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:37:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Joel Dahl To: "Gary W. Swearingen" In-Reply-To: References: <1126506523.582.18.camel@dude.automatvapen.se> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:36:47 +0200 Message-Id: <1126535807.582.90.camel@dude.automatvapen.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Restructure the Contributors article X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:37:45 -0000 On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 06:54 -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Joel Dahl writes: > > > Objections? > > I gotta agree with whoever who put the Donors Gallary first, before > the rest of the file, which is about as interesting as a telephone > book. People looking for information can easily scroll or search. I disagree. > Having it at the front were people will see it, even if they are just > looking at the page to see what it's about (which may be their only > look at it), serves the good purpose of thanking the donors and thus > encouraging other to donate. I think it's safe to bet that the core > team doesn't need the encouragement of top billing. Have you looked at the FreeBSD.org frontpage? I quote: "It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals" The last part is a link to this article. This is confusing, since people that follows this link probably expects some kind of information about our developers, certain teams, etc, not a bunch of old donor entries. > A change that would be an improvement would be to order the donations > with the most recent first. That could be done within the categories > or better, IMO, with the categories removed and noted in each entry. Perhaps you didn't read my mail. It's outdated. "All" current donations can be viewed at http://www.freebsd.org/donations/donors.html -- Joel - joel at FreeBSD dot org