From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:56:22 +0200 Message-ID: <83mw6ts3mh.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <87tx19rd1b.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20141205215138.GF7784@thyrsus.com> <54823617.4000406@cs.ucla.edu> <83k325195l.fsf@gnu.org> <5482D94B.2070102@cs.ucla.edu> <5484FF31.5010808@cs.ucla.edu> <5485FC59.5030700@cs.ucla.edu> <87388p6glt.fsf@engster.org> <871to9lw6g.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <5486A704.6090305@cs.ucla.edu> <87k321jj4e.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <54876F7F.9000607@cs.ucla.edu> <87y4qfj2u9.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <54889A57.5060905@cs.ucla.edu> <87vbljb9f4.fsf@wanadoo.es> <54889F6D.6060408@cs.ucla.edu> <87r3w7b83a.fsf@wanadoo.es> <5488C710.3000209@cs.ucla.edu> <871to7ayv9.fsf@wanadoo.es> <838uiet79b.fsf@gnu.org> <87zjatfzj0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418371019 22573 80.91.229.3 (12 Dec 2014 07:56:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 07:56:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 12 08:56:52 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XzL5n-0000IC-Cp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 08:56:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55875 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzL5m-0003Mv-Gm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 02:56:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41707) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzL5V-0003MY-0Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 02:56:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzL5K-0001SG-JI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 02:56:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout29.012.net.il ([80.179.55.185]:38050) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzL5K-0001Rg-BP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 02:56:22 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout29.012.net.il by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NGG00J00LJ0UK00@mtaout29.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:53:56 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NGG00LEOLXW8W00@mtaout29.012.net.il>; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:53:56 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87zjatfzj0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.185 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:179865 Archived-At: > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" > Cc: =C3=93scar Fuentes , > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:05:39 +0900 >=20 > Eli Zaretskii writes: >=20 > > > 2. checking the resulting document in terms of appearance crit= eria can > > > be done by another individual. >=20 > > I also have hard time to imagine we will find volunteers for 2: = it's a > > mundane, boring job that no one is motivated to do except the au= thor. >=20 > Wiki has solved that problem. Theoretically. In practice, many wikis are in terrible disarray. My evidence is the very small number (close to zero) of times we've seen bug reports about typos and other clerical errors in Emacs documentation. Of course, one way to give more people motivation to do that is to leave more errors in the docs.