Re: Regarding LSR translation work

[Carl Sorensen]

On 4/24/12 7:56 AM, "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> wrote:

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>From: "Graham Percival" <address@hidden>
>To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
>Cc: "Federico Bruni" <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
>Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 8:42 AM
>Subject: Re: Regarding LSR translation work
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>> [1] of course there was some recent interest in this.  But to put
>> some numbers on it: I was expecting ~3 contributors per year to do
>> serious work within LSR, and to have ~1 new LSR editor per year.
>> I think that over the lifetime of LSR (i.e. 7 years) we've had
>> about 5 contributors doing serious work and 2 or 3 editors.
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>I think you tend to see the LSR as a way of providing examples for the
>docs, 
>which it does.  However, it has a much more significant value as a
>searchable source of tweaks and inspiration.  It's worth supporting for
>that 
>alone.

In my opinion, the LSR as a user-contributable source of tweaks and
inspiration is certainly useful, and I wouldn't want to see it go away.

However, I can see some arguments for not having the LSR be the repository
for our documentation snippets.

Thanks,

Carl