Chr5istian wrote: > It is an easy attitide because you can always blame the others for your > changes not making it through.
That is _exactly_ what you are doing here. > saying something like: "Don't even try it, this is a waste of time because > you won't get it on the site" Go read Issuezilla. Start with Issue # 1, until you get to the 42700 is the most recent one that sent a message. 42732 is the highest number I see in my inbox. Look at how long it takes for an issue to be filed, till completed. > What is not easy is to keep pushing your ideas, getting on people's nerves > until the page is uploaded. The fact that one has to do that, indicates that there are _major_ problems with the system. > Sorry to say that. Things are accepted easily. Everybody agreed with the > contribution page. You were only missing someone to do the final step. If Daniel has to wait months for "someone to do the final step" how long are other people going to wait for that individual to magically appear and make the change. Two years? Three years? Four years? > If nobody cares about it, then do it yourself (do It yourself means: find > someone to upload the files). That is _no_ way to run a business, much less a volunteer project like OOo. > This is another issue because of licensing and other issues (problems with > the contents for some countries, and similar) In which country is there a problem with the licence that that material is under? Or content of that site, for that matter? > inclusion (apart from the concerns of the issues avove). > (file an issue in the first place and assign it to that person) Take a look at the issues Daniel has filed. > Again: It is aleays easy to tell "this is broken". But you fail to give > concrete examples in this case. To expect a specific example when the end user has no idea of what is wrong is inane. One way to fix it, is to run the material through Babelfish, translating it into French, then run it through Babelfish, translating it into German, then run it through Babelfish, translating it into English. If the resulting instructions still are clear, they probably are understandable to people who have zero computer knowledge. If they are garbled, or mishmashes,. then toss the material away, and start writing again, from scratch. And repeat that process until the instructions can survive that sort of round robin translation, unscathed. xan jonathon -- The taxpayers of the United States of America have funded every terrorist attack in the world since 1950. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
