Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 09:58:16 -0400 From: "Michael W . Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: attributions in FAQ Message-ID: <20030612095816.A27046@blackhelicopters.org>
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Hi folks, As some of you might notice, I'm working on the FAQ intensively for a few days. A couple things I've noticed: We have one and only one section, "installation", that has an author listed. I don't think that FAQ sections really have authors; they're not like the Handbook. IIRC, most of the useful information in this section went into the Handbook anyway. If we want authors listed, we should put them on either all the sections, or on individual questions, not just on one section that now sticks out like a sore toe. Also, the "acknowledgements" section is woefully obsolete. We have jkh listed, when he made only two commits to the current FAQ. While I have the highest respect for Peter da Silva, he has not been the FAQ typing machine slavey since the dark ages. Wollman hasn't committed to the current FAQ. Meanwhile, current contributors go unacknowledged. I am well aware that these people put in a huge amount of work, mind you, and we should not dismiss them in favor of us young turks who have only been active since 1999 or so. That's a definite slap in the face to our past supporters, and those who gave us something to work on. I believe that the credits section is essentially unmaintainable. One of these days, those young punks like trhodes or (gasp) hmp may be the old farts, when I've have moved on to maintaining libembezzle or something. My suggestion is that we credit people in individual questions where necessary, particularly where we quote emails and suchlike, and delete the acknowledgements page entirely. Comments? ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Absolute OpenBSD: http://www.AbsoluteOpenBSD.com/
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