Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?
On Fri 28 Sep 2018 at 16:29:56 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 02:53:35PM +0000, Curt wrote:
> > It's been reverted but as the formulation is a little awkward it's too
> > bad we didn't take this opportunity to unawkwardate it.
>
> For the avoidance of any doubt, jmtd is me (Jonathan Michael Thomas
> Dowland). I'm not involved in cdrkit development.
>
> I opted to restore the text exactly as it was (a pure revert) rather
> than improve upon it, although I'm not really sure why I rationalised
> that.
Sufficient rationale is in
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/09/msg01033.html
> My way to express the current technical situation was the statement:
>
> "wodim should better not be used with DVD or BD media."
>
> which now became
>
> "Some believe it would be better if wodim were not used with DVD or BD
> media. Perhaps so, but there are many variables involved, most
> especially burner types and condition, and media quality.
> '''Burn on one does not necessarily mean readable on another.'''"
> It is not the opinion of "some". It is the opionion of me, the expert (tm).
A user doesn't have to be a cdrkit developer or user of the software to
act on a statement such as this when editing a wiki.
--
Brian.
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