First of all, someone from infra/recruiters might please revoke my write access to gentoo/xml/htdocs/news/gwn. I'm no longer interested in contributing to the GWN.
> I also believe that when posting an article or interview, a copy should > be sent to the relevant people to ensure that they are ok with what is > being posted (my dev of the week interview, for example, was rather > screwed up and misrepresentative). That's why Ulrich posts a draft to the core mailinglist, both for technical and grammar/spelling review. Also it is (at least it was) "expected behavior", to give "devs of the week" (and devs mentioned or affected in/by other articles) a chance to review the article about them. If this wasn't the case with your article this is a problem we need to address. > When someone contacts GWN to have > something corrected, it would be appreciated were the GWN staff to at > least deign to acknowledge receipt, even if for some reason they choose > not to honour the corrections or post a retraction (although refusing to > publish corrections is extremely insulting to those wronged). That's what I did in the past, of course: Only if I knew that there's something which needs to be corrected. (i.e. if there's a mail to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] alias). > Another thing that concerns me is the way the articles are written. It > is blatanly obvious that the GWN writers are not native English speakers > as both the grammar and the flow of the articles is far from attractive. > Having read through the archives, I notice that there was once a time > when the GWN was a great publication, and I would like to think that it > could become great yet again; in its current state, though, it is doing > more harm than good. Once again: We have a draft posted to core to catch grammer/spelling mistakes. That doesn't improve the language used in GWN at all, but as you mentioned, none of us is a native speaker. I'm sorry for not being a native speaker. Finally, reading your mail makes me really angry. I'm seeing myself as a somewhat regular contributor to the GWN and would have expected, that someone who draws a negative picture of the GWN like you, tried to talked to me before posting such a mail. Also I see nothing the Council can decide to improve the GWN, besides stopping further GWN releases. I fully agree that we have lots problems and much room for improvement with the GWN, but I can't agree with the way your trying to achieve this. EOD for me. wkr, Tobias
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