[CentOS-docs] edit by AlanBartlett

[Akemi Yagi]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:16 PM, R P Herrold <herrold at centos.org> wrote:
(snip)
> - Does have a {{{rpmforge-release}}} package but you don't want it enabled; QUERY: Why? RPH
> + Does have a {{{rpmforge-release}}} package but you don't want it enabled.
(snip)
> I've made my view in CentOS space (that is: here) quite clear,
> that broken matter needs to stick out to provoke the author or
> champion of it to fix it.  This question has been there since
> 2010-05-27, and the question remains unanswered here or there.
> Burying it under a rug does not answer it

Rather than letting this go into [potentially a heated] debate, let's
take this as a good opportunity to do some positive thinking, shall
we?

Russ, you posted that query on 2009-10-20 (not 2010-05-27) as I can
see it in this diff:

http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge?action=diff&rev2=23&rev1=22

That is, your query went unanswered for 10 months.  I do receive [and
take a look at] every diff mailed to me. But to tell you the truth, I
did not notice that query. It was buried in many changes you happened
to make in that particular edit.  I would imagine other people
(including the original author who put the sentence in) did not see
it, either.

So, here comes the positive thinking part: what would have worked
better if placing the query within the page did not do the job?
'Asking on this mailing list' comes to my mind. That way, chances of
getting attention will be quite good.  Posting here will also be
useful especially if a question is something that is best discussed by
people on the -doc list rather than something the person who wrote the
sentence "decides".

Akemi