Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Mon Feb 07 23:03:39 -0500 2011: > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Ben Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > > E > >> Please take the appropriate section, write it in normal-people > >> language as much as possible, and put it on our own pages. > > > > Why the insistence on dumbed-down language? These documents are aimed > > at maintainers, not the general public. > > By saying, that you are saying, "maintainers are 'special': they're > smarter than 'the general public'. The general public is too stupid to > understand our elite documents, we shouldnt bother trying to write > docs for more 'common' people"
No. What I'm really saying is that we're writing to a technical audience that is already familiar with this type of language or fully able to comprehend it upon first encounter. > We should be moving away from elitism, not towards it. We need to be > more inclusive. I really don't see this as elitist. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
