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