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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: openbsd version?
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:04:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <434AD742.2090109@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86y851aydl.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>

Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> 
> Johannes> <optimism>Maybe he who found the documentation lacking is going to fix 
> Johannes> it?</optimism>
> 
> I'd be happy to do that.  But as a tech writer, I know that it's
> insane to not work at least from an implementor's rough draft, to at
> least understand the intent of a mechanism, if not the precise design.
> There's no implementor's rough draft here, so I can't help.
> 

Sounds like an offer to send Mr. Schwartz some notes to work from.  In 
my experience, sending notes to a good tech writer is about an order of 
magnitude less painful than writing polished documentation, so that 
should be easier.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-10 21:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-10 16:12 openbsd version? Randal L. Schwartz
2005-10-10 16:29 ` Peter Eriksen
2005-10-10 16:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-10 19:06   ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-10 19:29     ` Randal L. Schwartz
2005-10-10 20:30       ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-10 20:36         ` Randal L. Schwartz
2005-10-10 20:49           ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-10-10 20:52             ` Randal L. Schwartz
2005-10-10 21:04               ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-10-10 21:05                 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2005-10-10 21:31               ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-10-10 21:31           ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-10 21:00         ` Sven Verdoolaege
2005-10-10 21:42           ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-13  7:47             ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-13  8:29               ` Sven Verdoolaege

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