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Llorean:
I always love the "you should do the work for me, because my logic suggests it's less work for you, and of course your time is less valuable to me than my time" reasoning for why people don't want to do the work themselves.

pwabrahams:
I now have the answer to my question, so the improvement I suggested for the manual doesn't benefit me any more.  I haven 't done software development for quite a while, but when I did, I always welcomed suggestions, good or bad.   The good ones I used; the bad ones I simply passed over.   If my suggested change is an improvement, then the question would be, I'd think, whether the effort of implementing it is worth the benefit.  My willingness or unwillingness to do the work ought to be irrelevant.  And besides, would you want someone you don't know mucking with the code?

Suppose I offered to do the work.  Would the effort it would take to (a) verify my qualifications, and (b) verify that my code revisions were sound and had no bad side effects, be any less than the effort for someone active in the Rockbox project and its documentation to just make the change themselves?

I'm grateful to the people involved in the Rockbox project for the fine work they've done.  My suggestion was intended in a purely constructive spirit.

Llorean:
It's open source. It's all about people we don't know mucking with the code and submitting patches. You seem to be mistaking this for a closed project.

Chronon:

--- Quote from: pwabrahams on May 24, 2011, 03:55:13 PM ---Suppose I offered to do the work.  Would the effort it would take to (a) verify my qualifications, and (b) verify that my code revisions were sound and had no bad side effects, be any less than the effort for someone active in the Rockbox project and its documentation to just make the change themselves?
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Your qualifications aren't really relevant.  Any patch you submit would be reviewed and/or tested before being included in the source tree.


--- Quote ---I'm grateful to the people involved in the Rockbox project for the fine work they've done.  My suggestion was intended in a purely constructive spirit.

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I appreciate that but please don't feel that you can't contribute just because you haven't been active before now.  For those who are not familiar with LaTeX we also accept plain text submissions to the patch tracker that clearly indicate proposed changes. 

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