Re: politicaly-correct patch (was: Re: GNU/Hurd section in webpages)

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   Patch instructions:

     mv install.html hurd-install.html
     cp hurd-install.html gnu-install.html

I don't particularly like this, we would end up with two "special"
files that stand out.  I.e. what does download.html refer to? GNU/Hurd
or the Hurd?  I would suggest that we either leave the Hurd related
files as they are (no prefix), and for the new section just tag on
gnu- or whatever.  Or do it the other way around, rename all Hurd
related files to have a hurd- prefix and let GNU/Hurd related items
have no prefix.  I don't really have an preference on this, but I'm
leaning to the former since its far less work.

Now for the patch...

   diff -Nur hurd.old/gnu-install.html hurd/gnu-install.html
   --- hurd.old/gnu-install.html        2003-10-15 14:06:09.000000000 +0000
   +++ hurd/gnu-install.html    2003-10-15 14:07:53.000000000 +0000
   @@ -49,17 +49,17 @@
[snip of some unimportant stuff]
   +There's no official stable release of the GNU system yet. The latest 
unstable
   +release is <A HREF="/software/hurd/hurd-flash15">GNU 0.2</A>. Nowadays, that
   +release is completely obsolete, and even binary incompatible with current
   +GNU/Hurd distributions.

I don't particularly like this paragraph since it sounds negative
("There was an release, but it sucks, etc" kind of thing).  But the
ideas I tried to come up with sounded worse.  Could you maybe come up
something that makes this sound a bit more positive maybe?

Oh, a small nitpick, sentences end with a period and _two_ spaces, not
one space.  That is, we write "Foo.  Bar." instead of "Foo. Bar.".

   diff -Nur hurd.old/hurd-install.html hurd/hurd-install.html
   --- hurd.old/hurd-install.html       2003-05-26 12:48:25.000000000 +0000
   +++ hurd/hurd-install.html   2003-10-15 14:02:40.000000000 +0000
   @@ -61,49 +59,14 @@
    no `stable' version.  We distribute the Hurd sources only through CVS
    at present.
    <P>
[snip of unimportant stuff]
   +Refer to the <A HREF="/software/hurd/download.html">Source Code</A> section
   +for details on Hurd sources availability.
   +<HR>

Maybe something along these lines instead, so that it flows with the
previous paragraph:

 But if you would like to help and contribute changes to the Hurd (or
 related projects) then please visit the `Source Code' section for
 details on how to download the source code for the Hurd.


I guess thats all I have to say, since the rest of the files look OK.

Cheers.