From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937651AbYEVAlR (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 20:41:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764628AbYEVAlC (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 20:41:02 -0400 Received: from smtp5.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.39]:60121 "EHLO smtp5.pp.htv.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756199AbYEVAlB (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 20:41:01 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 03:38:44 +0300 From: Adrian Bunk To: Al Viro Cc: Andrew Morton , Cyrill Gorcunov , tytso@mit.edu, hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net Subject: Re: CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org (was [PATCH] Standard indentation of arguments) Message-ID: <20080522003844.GF16376@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> References: <12113495282137-git-send-email-kongjianjun@gmail.com> <20080521083413.GM28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20080521015037.add0b78e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080521103206.GA24545@infradead.org> <20080521120939.GF8581@mit.edu> <20080521104644.5b6f4e63.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080521185725.GD6932@cvg> <20080521123127.3b3b66af.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080521230155.GC16376@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080521233539.GR28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080521233539.GR28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.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 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed