Subject: Re: [vserver] Roadmap and Future ...
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:09:24 +0100

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 04:04:51PM +0000, Ed W wrote:
> ben@bristolwireless.net wrote:
> >
> >"Comes across as a tad bit arrogant" it really is just a tad bit and 
> >will probably change as the project progresses. I sometimes detect a 
> >"why don't people know this already?" attitude. It's easy to fall into 
> >this feeling when directed the wiki and then thinking to ones self, 
> >"Why didn't I find that?". Many people will not bother to peruse 
> >documentation before asking questions, I do though, but still there 
> >are many times I can't find solutions to my problems in vserver 
> >documentation. There are some characteristics of the documentation and 
> >of linux-vserver which are part of this problem.

> Just to give a bit of balance on this.  Personally I don't see this.  
> However, I suspect that some on this list are not native english 
> speakers and those of us who are, need to try and allow that sometimes 
> written english comes across in ways it was not intended

> Annecdote: I personally sometimes get people coming back asking why I am 
> being shirty in an email.  I look back at what I wrote and it will be 
> something I wrote in a hurry and it's missing all the flowery cr*p that 
> us english folks pepper our writing with.  If you write terse to the 
> point english then it's frequently interpreted as being "rude", when 
> it's actually just to the point.  Just beware of that basically

wouldn't hurt to get examples for that for 'us'
non native english speakers :)

TIA,
Herbert