From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EfNi7-0007nC-Tr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 20:28:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAOKReIl006658; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 20:27:40 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAOKPLlV012917 for ; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 20:25:22 GMT Received: from 82-41-57-20.cable.ubr08.edin.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.41.57.20] helo=snowdrop.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EfNej-0000sA-GR for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 20:25:21 +0000 Received: from localhost.home ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EfNeg-0002Kr-Ml for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 20:25:18 +0000 Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 20:25:16 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Maintainer's guides? Message-ID: <20051124202516.549da658@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <200511242059.09378@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> References: <200511240101.45977@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <200511241508.42312@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <20051124195049.5211150b@snowdrop.home> <200511242059.09378@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.100 (GTK+ 2.6.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_BxxOB/RYT=8zCCfHQe=z.CF"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 3071b9d1-31e1-4583-8a99-07d8c2b278b5 X-Archives-Hash: b1a9e7d1032d549806e9f84f5224b23e --Sig_BxxOB/RYT=8zCCfHQe=z.CF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 20:58:46 +0100 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten=C3=B2" wrote: | On Thursday 24 November 2005 20:50, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > Of course, the problem | > with that is that some our package maintainers couldn't stick | > together a coherent English sentence even if they were paid to do | > so... | | That's why I was thinking of a complete project with some doc guys | assigned to grammar revision. *shrug* I'm not sure that the existing docs team is the best way of handling developer documentation. It's probably better off with a separate team, with some people belonging to both as necessary. =20 | Not everybody is a native English speaker, and it's stupid blaming | people for that. There doesn't seem to be any strong correlation between being a native English speaker and being able to write correct English... --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Supreme Lord Gerbil Wrangler) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Sig_BxxOB/RYT=8zCCfHQe=z.CF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDhiGu96zL6DUtXhERAjjjAJ4y9a6AzZLbHz1/vUi4NtLCDlSMjQCgzVQY T81uctE67CErxmr3n1isHg0= =09JX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_BxxOB/RYT=8zCCfHQe=z.CF-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list