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On 12 Apr 2003, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sad, 2003-04-12 at 16:20, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > > /Documentation could be a lot better than it is... Some of it > > > is very out of date. > > > > > > You are being way too kind. > > > > /Documentation is *awful*. > > You know where to submit contributions this is, from a personal perspective, simply too timely to pass up. in fact, i have submitted six different patches, all aimed at either improving the documentation or cleaning up configuration menus. without exception, every patch i have submitted directly has been dropped without comment. the only one that was eventually accepted (rearranged filesystems menu) was because someone else with more authority and higher up the kernel-hacker food chain was gracious enough to submit it on my behalf. yes, i've read the "SubmittingPatches" guide, and at the risk of offending a few people, i find it pretty irritating, if not downright patronizing, to suggest that one should *expect* to have patches dropped without comment, and should *expect* to have to work hard at resubmitting the same patch until it takes. it's pretty counter-productive to suggest that there are a *number* of reasons why a patch might be discarded -- does not apply cleanly, style issue, perhaps too trivial, what have you -- but not give any indication as to what that reason might be. am i supposed to go back and take a closer look? take a wild guess? resubmit unchanged? as someone who hasn't been here that long and is still feeling my way around, i can appreciate how much work it is to be responsible for the numerous patches that are submitted. but it seems more than a little hypocritical to invite patches to fix things like documentation if those patches will just be tossed unanswered. if you'd like patches to improve things like menu layout or documentation, let me know, i'll be glad to help. if not, let me know that, too, so i can move on to other things and stop wasting my time. rday - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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