Re: grub.info

[Bruce O. Benson]

2009/12/31 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <address@hidden>

Bruce O. Benson wrote:
>
> 2009/12/30 Bruce Dubbs <address@hidden

> <mailto:address@hidden>>

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>     Bruce O. Benson wrote:
> All contributors can safely, legally add/merge/move stuff there if
> desired, delete anything/everything I wrote, add attributions I could
> not find, etc.
>

It's not how it works. For the documentation to be accepted to GNU
project contributors have to sign legal papers.
Now I'm going to comment on value of manual:
"Installation via Package Management" is distribution-specific so it's
inappropriate for upstream manual
"Building / Installation from Source" is a part of INSTALL and we
already have this
"Utilities" - description of tools is inappropriate. User doesn't care
if it's ELF or text file but how to use them.
"Pre-Boot" - is wrong. MBR doesn't point anywhere it's executable code.
"grub-rescue" part is wrong too
"Lua shell" is part of grub-extras, not grub itself.
In whole the manual is vague, contains inappropriate or inexact information.
If we merge any part of this manual into bzr we would need to proofread
every patch

This is the typical problem of contributing complaints vs. code.