Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 06 April 2009, Luk Claes wrote: >> Frans Pop wrote: >>> On Monday 06 April 2009, Otavio Salvador wrote: >>>> It would be nice if you could clarify why do you believe it is >>>> nonsense. >>> No thanks. I see no reason why _I_ should make that effort. >> Please stop that hostility. > > What hostility? > > Isn't it normal that the person proposing changes should provide > argumentation for those changes before the person doing all the work > "defends" his current methods? > > All I've seen so far is: > 22:44 < otavio> - we could upload installer manual too to give more up to > date docs > 22:45 < otavio> Even if installer manual is not translated, this can bring > up more attenting to what is done > 22:45 < otavio> and what is mÃssing > 22:45 < bubulle> I think it's OK to upload the d-i manual without the l10n > during the development cycle > > This is literally *all* that was said about the installation guide. Those > really are no more than very vague statements without any reasoning or > backing in facts.
Yes, so they don't imply any suboptimal handling of things now... > To me it's in no way clear how _any_ of the three goals listed there would > be served by more frequent uploads or skipping calls for translation > updates before uploads. To me it mostly shows that neither Otavio nor > Christian has any real idea of what they're talking about. I therefore > think it's up to them to explain their reasoning. I think s/uploads/updates + uploads/ is what they had in mind. I also think the part about translation updates is only to not wait for them, not to just skip them. > And really, it would help if people at least did some minimal research > into how and why things are before suggesting random changes. I think you might jump to conclusions too fast, there was only an honest worry to keep the documentation as much as possible up-to-date AFAICS. > And yes, asking _is_ allowed. But preferably in a neutral way _before_ > implying that the current way things are done is incorrect or at least > suboptimal. Right, though I don't think there was anything implied. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
