2009/12/31 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <phco...@gmail.com>

> Bruce O. Benson wrote:
> >
> > 2009/12/30 Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com
> > <mailto:bruce.du...@gmail.com>>
> >
> >     Bruce O. Benson wrote:
> > All contributors can safely, legally add/merge/move stuff there if
> > desired, delete anything/everything I wrote, add attributions I could
> > not find, etc.
> >
> It's not how it works. For the documentation to be accepted to GNU
> project contributors have to sign legal papers.
> Now I'm going to comment on value of manual:
> "Installation via Package Management" is distribution-specific so it's
> inappropriate for upstream manual
> "Building / Installation from Source" is a part of INSTALL and we
> already have this
> "Utilities" - description of tools is inappropriate. User doesn't care
> if it's ELF or text file but how to use them.
> "Pre-Boot" - is wrong. MBR doesn't point anywhere it's executable code.
> "grub-rescue" part is wrong too
> "Lua shell" is part of grub-extras, not grub itself.
> In whole the manual is vague, contains inappropriate or inexact
> information.
> If we merge any part of this manual into bzr we would need to proofread
> every patch
>

This is the typical problem of contributing complaints vs. code.
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