Hi Steve Owens, Wolfram, > Let me add my third. I'm a writer, not a programmer, so I volunteered to > help edit the online Help. I started doing that, then was informed by the > fellow I was working with that the Help was written for people whose second > language was English. As such, my edits were useless. So I just started > verifying links in the Help, and was informed after a number of hours of > work that the links had already been verified automatically.
At the moment, I would hope that somebody (Aitor?) could install HTMLHELP 1.0.6 into a directory on freedos.org to make it a more up to date replacement for http://help.fdos.org/ (it seems there is no way to really update anything on fdos.org in 2008/2009?) > All told, I wasted five or six hours of my time, probably an hour or two of > the other guy's time, and the project gained nothing from this involvement. > I know how hard it is to direct volunteer efforts, but perhaps a short email > from the person you are assisting, spelling out goals, would benefit the > project overall. While it is bad that you lost some time due to misunderstandings, I do not get the "HTMLHELP is for people whose second language is English, so my edits were useless"? What is the problem with it? Some more of (possibly off-list, chat, irc, skype...) discussion before starting with the work might have helped, but on the other hand, you can never avoid misunderstandings completely. > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Wolfram Sang <wolf...@the-dreams.de> wrote: > >>> I have been told that I can help alot by assisting you. >>> I have been given a link to the page but a list of files doesn't >>> really tell me what to do. >> I'd like to second Adam here. Once in a while (rare enough :/) I have a >> free hour in the evening and thought I could devote it to FreeDos. But >> then I end up at the above mentioned sites, having hardly a clue what >> they propose me to do. A small HOWTO about how to interpret the >> information on these sites may be a good idea as I could imagine there >> are more people like Adam and me. Hmmm assisting whom by doing what on which webpage? It seems I lost track of the exact topic of assisting in this thread...? Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensign option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
