On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 15:47:33 +0200 "Valentin Villenave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008/10/6 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Well, your personal source of knowledge and wisdom sucks. > > Matter of generation: not everybody was lucky enough to live at the > glorious era of usenet, you know :-) I have no clue how you kids grow up without usenet. That's half of the reason I act grumpy -- *somebody* has to teach you whippersnappers how things work. > > If you can remove a word (or words) without changing the meaning > > of a sentence, kill it with glee. > > I now understand why you no longer want to be a composer... Eh? Because I know that concise documentation is easier to understand? Especially for non-native-English speakers? Just because I'm trying to be nice to people with poor English doesn't mean that I can't appreciate Feldman, you know. Now, as it happens, I *don't* appreciate Feldman... and I admit that I prefer contemporary music that's less than 5 minutes long... but that has nothing to do with writing docs. > > Editing documentation *is* boring. But I'll have you note that I > > processed 99% of doc updates within a 12 hours for the *whole > > year* that I was running GDP. And the remaining 1% was delayed > > for academic work, not because I was bored did fun stuff instead. > > Managing updates is definitely less unpleasant than writing doc stuff > on your own. You have no clue what you're talking about. Writing docs, at least as part of GDP, involves you working on material that you've expressed an interest in, and can be done at your leisure. Editing docs often invovles stuff you don't care about at all, and should be processed as soon as possible. If contributors have to wait a few days to see their changes in HTML and/or get feedback, they get bored and wander off. It's a job that includes anywhere from 0.5 to 4 hours of mostly boring work each day. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
