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--- Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@...> schrieb am Fr, 1.5.2009:
> Von: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@...>
> Betreff: [gentoo-doc] Re: Handbooks / Autobuilds: What needs to be done?
> An: gentoo-doc@g.o
> Datum: Freitag, 1. Mai 2009, 13:30
> Josh Saddler <nightmorph@g.o> posted
> 49FA0A33.9010800@g.o,
> excerpted below, on Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:29:39 -0700:
>
> > Now, on the forums and on our highly visible public
> mailing lists, I've
> > continually asked for help for years, wanting to get
> in some fresh new
> > talents to keep up with the English documentation.
> Unfortunately, since
> > I started helping write docs in 2005, we haven't
> seen a single new
> > dedicated English editor. Not someone who later
> becomes a developer, nor
> > a regular user from the Gentoo community.
>
> Hmm... it takes some people years to be ready.
> Unfortunately, for them,
> ready happens in its own time, and can't be rushed to
> any visible
> effect. Fortunately, those same folks tend to stick around
> equally long,
> and often see generations of others come and go.
>
> So don't get too discouraged over it. OTOH, having
> some of those faster
> evolving generations to help in the mean time helps with
> the load, and
> unfortunately as you said, that hasn't happened here
> either.
>
> --
> Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs.
> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
> and if you use the program, he is your master."
> Richard Stallman
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