Re: intro/about
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 11:29:56PM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote:
> > I've just made a bunch of changes to webwml/english/intro/about.wml.
> > Since it was done in several revisions (intentionally), it will render
> > all translations obsolete.
> >
> > Please update your translations of intro/about.wml accordingly.
>
> Before translators do updates, I'd like to discuss some of the changes
> with you. I should be on #debian-devel later today (yikes, it's after
> midnight already).
>
> Personally, I'd like to revamp all the introductory documents to make
> them more complete and easier for newbies to find what they want.
> I broached the subject before, but no one seemed interested in
> discussing it.
Well, I just got up :) and I'm always for discussion. :)
I basically fixed a few glaring errors, such as implying that bandwidth was
free or that one would download using only FTP.
The page didn't seem to be thought out 100% -- it seemed organized towards
newbies, yet it was talking about architectures. It looks like a FAQ, but it
recommends reading another FAQ, which in turn contains a lot of this stuff
already. These things aren't overly logical :)
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