Re: HEADSUP: Call for FreeBSD Status Reports - 2Q/2011

2011-07-25 Thread Vadim Goncharov
Hi Daniel Gerzo! 

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:46:49 +0200; Daniel Gerzo  wrote:

> Do not hesitate and write us a few lines; a short  description about
> what you are working on, what your plans and goals are, or any other
> information that you consider interested is always welcome. This way
> we can inform our community about your great work!
> Check out the reports from the past to get some inspiration of what
> your submission should look like.
[...]
> Note that the submissions are accepted from anyone involved within the
> FreeBSD community, you do not have to be a FreeBSD committer. Anything
> related to FreeBSD can be covered.

> Please email us the filled-in XML template which can be found at
> http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-sample.xml to
> mont...@freebsd.org, or alternatively use our web based form located at
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/monthly.cgi.

A note for the future: you will tend to receive more submissions if you
will make life a lot easier for submitter. The most natural way of using
the aforementioned Web form - as, surprise, a Web form (BTW, the field to
type in is too small and thus uncomfortable). That is, result of clicking
"Submit" button must be immediately sending info to central base, requiring
no further work from submitter to cut-n-paste the thing to e-mail. This
is just frightening to everyone who is not a FreeBSD committer, with regard
to needing to send this info to another e-mail which it suggests! (I was
told that in IRC, and fro where has the Joe Random Contributor to know this?)

We will have more docs when a contributor is not forced to efforts which are
unneeded. Having to do such things which could be easily done on server-side
looks just too unpolite for those who came in - and some of them will turn
away from sending.

P.S. This is general principle, not only for docs - forcing user to do
something which could be already done by maintainer turns away from the
system many of them.

-- 
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HEADSUP: Call for FreeBSD Status Reports - 2Q/2011

2011-06-29 Thread Daniel Gerzo

Dear all,

I would like to remind you that the next round of status reports
covering the second quarter of 2011 is due on July 15th, 2011. As this
initiative is very popular among our users, I would like to
ask you to submit your status reports soon, so that we can compile the
report on time.

Do not hesitate and write us a few lines; a short  description about
what you are working on, what your plans and goals are, or any other
information that you consider interested is always welcome. This way
we can inform our community about your great work!
Check out the reports from the past to get some inspiration of what
your submission should look like.

If you know about a project that should be included in the status
report, please let us know as well, so we can poke the responsible
people to provide us with something useful. Updates to submissions from
the last report are welcome too.

Note that the submissions are accepted from anyone involved within the
FreeBSD community, you do not have to be a FreeBSD committer. Anything
related to FreeBSD can be covered.

Please email us the filled-in XML template which can be found at
http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-sample.xml to
mont...@freebsd.org, or alternatively use our web based form located at
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/monthly.cgi.

For more information, please visit http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/.

We are looking forward to see your submissions!

--
Kind regards
  Daniel Gerzo
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