Actually I was expecting someone to proof my changes, since it's
generally accepted where I come from that it's not a reasonable
expectation for a person to be able to proof their own writing.
I'm a bit confused as to how things work around here. What are the
standards for accepting patches (and docs, specifically), and who
decides? I'm feel like I'm getting different opinions about what sort
of changes are welcome. I thought I read the docs regarding "How to
help out" with Subversion, but now I'm feeling like I must have missed
something.
I don't want to waste your time OR mine, so I'm not going to do any more
with this until I'm a little more clear about what's expected and
accepted. I gather this must be a common situation in the open-source
world (to which I am NEW).
I'm happy to help out and contribute, but I need just a LITTLE more
structure to work within. If y'all are too busy to provide that, I'll
understand - no problem.
--Matt
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Foad [mailto:julianfoad@btopenworld.com]
> Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 5:30 AM
> To: dev@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: Updates to ch02.xml
>
>
> cmpilato@collab.net wrote:
> > "Matt Blais" <mblais1@yummage.com> writes:
> >
> >>Minor readability changes, plus a couple error corrections.
> >>
> >>Index: ch02.xml
> >>===================================================================
> ...
> > Spurious, no-op changes.
> ...
> > Alright, that's it. I'm bailing on this review, and -1 on
> the patch
> > until it comes back with all this singular/plural business
> cleaned up.
>
> I agree. (As a specific point, the use of "their" to mean
> "his/her/its" is common in conversation but not very good
> written style. So the benefit of it sounding more like
> natural language is countered by the drawback of it sounding
> less professional.)
>
> The thing is, Matt, that for each change you make, often more
> than one person will review it, and they have limited time to
> spend on it. Therefore it is worth concentrating only on
> things that are definitely wrong or can be substantially
> improved. For what it's worth, I agree with the spirit of
> most of your changes - including "stepping on someone's toes"
> being the natural idom rather than "feet" - but there are a
> very great number of changes here (especially in ch03.xml),
> and several of them are ones that a different proof reader
> would change back to the other way. In those marginal cases,
> prefer making no change.
>
> Thanks for your patience and I hope this doesn't put you off.
> I (and we) are grateful for many of the corrections and
> improvements that you are offering.
>
> - Julian
>
>
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