[Savannah-hackers] Re: pup at savannah.gnu.org

[Mathieu Roy]

"Bradley M. Kuhn" <address@hidden> said:

> I am bit concerned about this tone of this message.  It didn't bother me;
> but the tone of it is not cordial at all.  It makes it sound like we
> don't want people to use our servers for projects that are ramping up.
> It will surely insult people.

The message automatically sent is now updated.
Thanks.

> 
> 
> A message written like this would have been substantially better:
> 
>    Hi,
> 
>    It seems that the account on savannah for the project "pup" that you
>    are associated with is not currently utilized.
> 
>    It doesn't seem to point to a homepage, the CVS tree and download areas
>    are empty, and there don't seem to be any mailing lists.
> 
>    If you have plans to use this space to continue hosting it.  However,
>    we have a great deal of interest in savannah, and we want to host as
>    many active projects as possible.
> 
>    We have hidden the project from the public search temporarily, until
>    we hear from you about the project.  If we don't hear from you in N
>    days, we'll have to delete the project to save space.  However, if the
>    project becomes active, you are always welcome to recreate it.
> 
> 
> The difference between what I wrote and what is written below would make
> the world of difference.  It looks like the text below was written by a
> non-native English speaker. 

Right.

> The two texts have subtle differences in phrasing that makes it
> substantially more polite to a native English speaker.
>
> 
> If you don't mind, I would be happy to look over statements in the future
> and give my feedback on the text before they are sent.  Would you all
> mind doing that?

Good.

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Mathieu Roy
 
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