Brian Heinrich wrote: > On 31 Jul 2002, it is alleged that Bernard D. Tremblay (Ben) sauntered in to > netscape.public.mozilla.documentation and loudly proclaimed:
*gawd this bit of verbosity has bored me to tears!!* > > Christian Biesinger wrote: > >> Click "Edit this page" > >> Edit > >> you now get a patch. mail it to the owner of the page > > Is that all there is to it, really?! > > I've rarely dared to use that function ... never had any sense of what the > > consequences were, how the changes would ramify. > > I'd be interested in hearing just what "get a patch" consists of. > When you edit the page, it'll generate a diff. Know what? I'm looking at the "doctor" version of http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xpcom/glue/Component_Reuse.html [I have wierd reading habits late at night ... don't go there] I /don't/ believe that making the slight edit and clicking "Review Changes" will generate what /I/ consider a "diff". (Maybe I'd feel a bit more confidence if the page I was looking at fit my 800X600 screen; since it is, in fact, too wide, I don't assume much else to be sensible and ship-shape ... call me superficial.). > Rather than committing the changes yourself (which you can't do unless you > have CVS access), Christian is suggesting that you e-mail that diff (the page > that is generated, I assume) to the page owner. That sounds safe. Clumsy, and hardly in keeping with what I think we have as a shared understanding of reasonable bar height ... but it is safe. > > IIRC, Gerv was unhappy with this way of proceeding (generating the diff and > then e-mailing it), and I can't really blame him, but that seems to be the > most sensible route -- unless, of course, you want to commit the changes > yourself and run the risk of /really/ p***ing off the page owner, &c, &c. yaaaaaa mahn, and that's one of the common sense universals that I keep running into; far from slap-dash and cavalier, I think our contributers are careful not to piss folk off ... gawd, isn't there this shared culture of "ooops, too many bugs!". On the one hand we have a group that is conscientiously going about creating a new entity, on the other than this group is inexperienced with R&D and so it is IMHO less than disciplined in proceeding step-wise. The "doctor.moz" interface is lovely ... who but the select few and the rash dare will to use it?! I for one refrain from giving rise to eccentric karma. > /b. h_b -- http://chebucto.ca/Current/AEF/raps/blog/blogger.html http://chebucto.ca/Current/P7/blog/blogger.html In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper. Buckminster Fuller "If the overall pie can grow, so be it, but when it can't then elites start taking a bigger piece of whatever pie there is. The capitalist imperative is: 'Ruling elites must prosper'. Societies are managed so as to satisfy this imperative." Richard K. Moore Citizens for a Democratic Renaissance http://cyberjournal.org
