[csw-maintainers] [POLICY] Shared library placement proposal

[Ben Walton]

Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Mon Feb 07 23:03:39 -0500 2011:
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
> > E
> >> Please take the appropriate section, write it in normal-people
> >> language as much as possible, and put it on our own pages.
> >
> > Why the insistence on dumbed-down language?  These documents are aimed
> > at maintainers, not the general public.
> 
> By saying, that you are saying, "maintainers are 'special': they're
> smarter than 'the general public'. The general public is too stupid to
> understand our elite documents, we shouldnt bother trying to write
> docs for more 'common' people"

No.  What I'm really saying is that we're writing to a technical
audience that is already familiar with this type of language or fully
able to comprehend it upon first encounter.

> We should be moving away from elitism, not towards it. We need to be
> more inclusive.

I really don't see this as elitist.

Thanks
-Ben
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Ben Walton
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