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On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:54:31 +0100 |
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AllenJB <gentoo-lists@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> I have tried to bring up the issues on the docs team list but pretty |
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> much get shot down and told everything is fine and dandy. |
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Going to have to call "bullshit" on this one. Who told you that on the lists? Have you *seen* *any* of the posts *I've* made? Take a look back at the list for the last, oh, year's worth of posts from me. |
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We know there's stuff to do. There just aren't enough people. I do what I can, but I'm but one man. |
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> I personally would happily donate my time to working on the docs, if |
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> only it didn't involve a markup language nobody else uses. I suggested a |
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> closed wiki for official documentation, but was again shot down saying |
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> that the existing team (who seem to be doing nothing) would need to |
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> reskill and that the server admins dislike wikis. |
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"Who seem to be doing nothing." |
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Thanks. Thanks for shitting all over my work for the last month/year/years. All the hours I spend each week (each day) even when I'm devaway maintaining docs in /doc/, /proj/, and our other www pages in /main/. Thanks for saying I do nothing. |
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I know you're not aware of everything that's going on behind the scenes, but to make such a blanket statement is just uncalled for. I suggest you take a look at http://sources.gentoo.org/gentoo/xml/htdocs/ (doc/en/ and proj/en/) to see some commit history before making such an unkind statement. |
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We're not totally dead. Not all of the team is inactive. I'm active. The translators are active. Our lead has been fielding the bugs as they come in. |
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The problem with the English side of the docs is that I'm basically the only person doing anything. That means that while I can *sorta* keep up with the regular influx of non-handbook doc bugs, I can't do the entire handbook revamp on my own.* |
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* Actually, I could, but some of the changes I have in mind are so far-reaching that I'd prefer not to go over the head of my team lead and instead stick to our existing policies rather than start breaking things left and right. |