Re: Discussion of written English style

2019-06-04 Thread William A Rowe Jr
On Mon, Jun 3, 2019, 17:37 Jose Miguel Parrella Romero wrote: > Off-topic and as an exercise, I wrote a simpler version of The Apache Way. > Input welcome! > https://gist.github.com/bureado/ee91c7ebc397348b0b5e76841fe6184c > > Of course just translating "The Apache Way" is a mental exercise in it

Re: Discussion of written English style

2019-05-30 Thread William A Rowe Jr
On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 11:09 AM Patricia Shanahan wrote: > Interesting. I just tried this on some of my own writing in the draft > FAQ. Translating English->Italian->Japanese->Basque->English transformed: > > "Style and writing etiquette, such as how directly or indirectly one > indicates that a

Re: [DISCUSS] committee resources

2019-05-21 Thread William A Rowe Jr
As yet another strawperson... The form at legal is discuss@... the form at incubator is general@. That doesn't make incubator's list "subordinate", just simply conveys that software isn't dev'eloped on that list and the focus is more, uhm, general. On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 4:43 PM Naomi Slater

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-18 Thread William A Rowe Jr
22:32 Patricia Shanahan wrote: > Among the D&I resources I've examined so far, trackers seem to be rare. > > On 5/18/2019 8:20 PM, William A Rowe Jr wrote: > > It doesn't seem to be our concern... Most pages have trackers but ours do > > not. If we add disclaimer/w

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-18 Thread William A Rowe Jr
It doesn't seem to be our concern... Most pages have trackers but ours do not. If we add disclaimer/warnings to all our links, we need to do that on PMC resource pointer pages, even sponsor links. This is a web client problem, and there are resources to deal with it for those concerned, IMO On S