Re: CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org (was [PATCH] Standard indentation of arguments)

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:35:39AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 02:01:55AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> > There are many other open source projects where it might be easier to 
> > get started and that are really looking for people wanting to get 
> > involved.
> 
> *blink*
> 
> OK, I give up; how was it supposed to be parsed?  I can't come up with any
> way of reading that sentence that would not be an obvious glaring idiocy
> and I don't see any obvious typos or word omissions that could have created
> that.
> 
> Surely you are not saying that we are not really looking for more people
> doing useful work?  And doing that without "getting involved"... could
> any resident Zen master enlighten me?  I seem to be unable to figure out
> how the hell one could pull off such a feat...

Sorry, I am not a native English speaker.

Perhaps my phrase was too long?
Or did I take a word wrongly from the dictionary?

Is it perhaps better understandable as follows:

There are many other open source projects where it might be easier to 
get started. This is since they are really (=desperately) looking for 
more people who want to get involved (=want to participate).


Or completely paraphrased:

We cannot offer intensive mentoring for everyone.

But people looking for more mentoring can find this in other open source 
projects.


cu
Adrian

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