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On 16:43 Wed 28 Nov , Alec Warner wrote: |
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> On 11/28/07, Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote: |
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> > Here's my understanding of what you said: Because people will break |
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> > rules and violate standards, we shouldn't have any. |
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> > Is that accurate? |
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> Kind of. |
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> Most people follow most rules. Most people break a subset of rules. |
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> You are essentially adding an unreasonable (in my view) rule that I |
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> expect nearly everyone to break or ignore, thereby adding little or no |
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> value to the project as whole. Most people care about documentation |
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> in the abstract sense, almost no one cares *enough* to write any ;) |
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> Forcing people to write documentation won't get it written, people |
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> will continue to act like we just saw and either the rule will get |
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> ignored, or someone will change the rule, or people will leave because |
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> the rule is enforced aggressively and it has ruined the ability to |
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> contribute to the project. |
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The Linux kernel seems to still have contributors, despite its |
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requirement. It seems like people decide to leave after nearly any |
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change Gentoo makes these days, so I'm not even sure how much we should |
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consider that unless we want to stop all development and do nothing. |
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(But I guess that also would be a change, so people would quit.) |
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> This is why I offered to write the GLEP for Diego and Cardoe, because |
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> I know they are not interested in writing it themselves. Thats why we |
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> have a doc-team that for some sick reason enjoy writing and |
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> maintaining documentation. |
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You've made some great points here about working with people who enjoy |
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dealing with docs. What I'm saying is that we should work with these |
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people before committing rather than after. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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