On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 01:04:47PM -0500, Bruce O. Benson wrote: > 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.
Bruce, there's absolutely no problem with Vladimir helping with review of code, documentation and proposals in general. In fact, I find this very helpful. You too are welcome to provide your feedback and participate in the discussions. If you do this, I will appreciate that you stay on topic and respectful to others. Thank you -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
