On Tuesday 18 September 2007 03:58:42 pm Dan Langille wrote: > On 18 Sep 2007 at 15:48, Dan Langille wrote: > > On 18 Sep 2007 at 15:43, Ivan Adzhubey wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > As many of you probably noticed more than once when consulting Bacula > > > documentation pages on www.bacula.org, they are full of typing errors, > > > omissions, incomplete descriptions, sometimes confusing explanations > > > and so on (together with lots of essential examples, hints and other > > > bits and pieces of invaluable wisdom of course). Since documenting such > > > a complex and sophisticated package is a huge work and developers often > > > have more important things to spend their time on (understandable), why > > > not to put it on the wiki pages and allow everyone to contribute? At > > > least then we can get rid of that annoying typing errors in no time. > > > > See http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php > > To clarify, typos etc can be corrected there. Patches can be > supplied. If someone gets good at supplying patches, I'm sure we'll > give them direct repository access so they can update the docs > directly.
Oh come on Dan, you clearly understand that won't work. I was talking about users being able to correct things on the fly immediately while reading through a particular section of the document. If one needs to register, produce a patch, submit it to SVN and then wait for it being approved then I bet the number of outside contributors will be close to zero. As it seems to be the case right now. --Ivan The information transmitted in this electronic communication is intended only for the person or entity to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this information in error, please contact the Compliance HelpLine at 800-856-1983 and properly dispose of this information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
