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From: KKH <knabberknusperhaus@yahoo.de>
To: gentoo-doc@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: AW: [gentoo-doc]  Re: Handbooks / Autobuilds: What needs to be done?
Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 11:44:06 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <68858.99360.qm@web24408.mail.ird.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2009.05.01.11.30.31@cox.net>


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--- Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> schrieb am Fr, 1.5.2009:

> Von: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
> Betreff: [gentoo-doc]  Re: Handbooks / Autobuilds: What needs to be done?
> An: gentoo-doc@lists.gentoo.org
> Datum: Freitag, 1. Mai 2009, 13:30
> Josh Saddler <nightmorph@gentoo.org> posted
> 49FA0A33.9010800@gentoo.org,
> 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






  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-01 11:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-27 10:22 [gentoo-doc] Handbooks / Autobuilds: What needs to be done? AllenJB
2009-04-30  1:14 ` Josh Saddler
2009-04-30 14:52   ` Ben de Groot
2009-04-30 15:29     ` Nathan Zachary
2009-04-30 20:29       ` Josh Saddler
2009-04-30 21:07         ` Nathan Zachary
2009-04-30 22:27           ` Josh Saddler
2009-04-30 23:21             ` Nathan Zachary
2009-05-01  0:41               ` wireless
2009-05-01  8:13           ` Ben de Groot
2009-05-01 11:30         ` [gentoo-doc] " Duncan
2009-05-01 11:44           ` KKH [this message]
2009-05-01 18:30             ` Марьясин Семён
2009-04-30 20:45   ` [gentoo-doc] " Joseph Jezak
2009-04-30 20:54     ` Josh Saddler

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