"Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> writes:
> kfogel@collab.net <kfogel@collab.net>:
> > After a message like that, I sort of expected a patch to our FAQ.
> > Do you have time to prepare one?
>
> Yes, but not the information needed to do it.
Okay. But based on reading your original message, and now the
responses, it looks like you have enough information to at least
improve the FAQ entry. For example, you now know that the vague
phrase "make a backup of the repository" means "use cp or something
similar".
Do Max Bowsher's changes of r18527 and r18525 address everything you
could currently address, or could you improve it more?
I'm not asking you for the patch as a show of form or something.
You've just had direct experience with the problem and the FAQ entry
that purported to solve it. I think you're in a better position to
improve the FAQ entry than I am (for one thing, I may be too familiar
with Subversion to see things from the right point of view!), and if
you could at least patch it up as much as you're able, and leave todo
notes indicating where the entry is insufficient/incorrect, that would
help a lot. We'd then have some fixes already done, and clear,
in-context guidance as to what fixes remain.
My principle problem with your flame mail is that the flamage was
distracting -- it wasted the time of those of us trying to get right
to the technical issues, because we had to wade through all that other
stuff. The rudeness was annoying, sure, but if the mail had been at
least concise, it wouldn't be such a chore to extract the useful bits
from it. I'm not saying that to insult you; I'm saying it in the
hopes that future mails will be more concise, and thus more effective
at what is presumably our shared goal.
Thanks,
-Karl
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Received on Mon Feb 20 09:37:05 2006