On Tue, 06 Dec 2016, hellekin wrote: > On 12/06/2016 06:26 PM, ja...@beau.org wrote: > > > > They're going to put money towards something that most every Open > > Source project has problems with - documentation. > > > > More than money we're putting a lot of energy and sensibility into > it.
indeed. the work on Devuan, both from dyne.org as an "institutional" partner and by the community surrounding it, is volunteer work. We are all devolving a lot of time in this development and spending just a very small part of the donation budget on people's time at rates that are well below business rates. This week I'll take the time to update the financial report to insure all is transparent and even welcome criticism can refer to specific decisions we have taken. The main sustainability plan for this project is based on the fact that Devuan is a *base OS* and we can all have more projects reliably growing from it that provide a degree of sustainability to the base operating system itself. Dyne.org as of now has two well funded projects that are using Devuan as a base, one running since years and which is soon announcing a crowdfunding and another one starting in january next year. About the language, while the sophistication and pragmatism of approaches may vary, I think is important to look at results. Booksprints are brilliant initiatives aimed at producing documentation and our people working in dyne:bxl, among them Hellekin and Natacha, are renown experts in leading such processes. I invite you all to contribute to the process, even criticism can be useful and I personally agree with Steve's implicit remark on having a prose that is shorter and to the point. The documentation of Devuan should really reflect the spirit of minimalism we all appreciate. It will also greatly benefit from the review of native english speakers. ciao _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng