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Re: [ES Matrix] Suggestions (was: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer)

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Michael Haufe (TNO) wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> AISB, I would be very glad if I had gotten as many suggestions for the
>> FAQ for comp.lang.javascript as I got for the ES Matrix.  As you can see
>> in the changelog, other people have submitted suggestions which were
>> implemented. Maybe something was/is wrong with your suggestions.
>> 
>> This may surprise you, but maintaining the ES Matrix is not what I do for
>> a living.  Neither is maintaining the FAQ for comp.lang.javascript. 
>> Those are pet projects I do in my limited free time.  I do have a regular
>> full-time job in the software industry.
>> 
>> If you want a person to do for a living what I do in my free time, you
>> will probably have to resort to crowdfunding.  But consider this: Those
>> whose daily job it were to maintain a document would be less likely to
>> judge the quality of that document and contributions to it correctly
>> because they must be lacking field experience in turn.
>> 
>> In my thesis (which I submitted and defended in 2012 while working part-
>> time) I had to focus on refining the test cases for the features that
>> already existed, and on important new features specified in ECMAScript
>> Edition 5.1 (which you could read in its translation into English, once
>> it is finished, at the latest).  Rest assured that any suggestions you
>> have submitted via e-mail are still there, and will be considered if and
>> as soon as possible (even more so as adding new features and testcases is
>> comparably easy now because of the new database and backend UI).
> 
> I wasn't seeking an excuse, explanation, nor seeking that past submissions
> I've made be added to the matrix, I was raising this issue as a possible
> caveat of my support for your role as maintainer. Primarily I was
> concerned that for the FAQ, like my experience with the Matrix prior to
> it's current incarnation, submissions would disappear into the ether.

Submissions have _not_ “disappeared into the ether”.  It is unfair of you to 
repeatedly suggest that they have, despite evidence to the contrary.

-- 
PointedEars

Twitter: @PointedEars2
Please do not Cc: me. / Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail.

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Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-06 12:37 -0700
  Re: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-10-07 12:55 +0000
    Re: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2013-10-07 14:02 +0100
  Re: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-10-07 19:56 +0100
    Re: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-07 23:37 -0700
      Re: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2013-10-16 22:44 +0200
        Re: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2013-10-16 14:34 -0700
          Re: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-10-17 00:32 +0200
            Re: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2013-10-16 18:13 -0700
              [ES Matrix] Suggestions (was: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-10-17 04:20 +0200
                Re: [ES Matrix] Suggestions (was: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer) "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2013-10-16 22:04 -0700
                Re: [ES Matrix] Suggestions (was: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-10-17 10:08 +0200
                Re: [ES Matrix] Suggestions (was: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer) "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2013-10-17 07:38 -0700
                Re: [ES Matrix] Suggestions Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-10-19 03:50 +0200
                Re: [ES Matrix] Suggestions "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2013-10-21 20:54 -0700
                Re: [ES Matrix] Suggestions Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-10-23 21:27 +0200
                Re: [ES Matrix] Suggestions (was: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer) Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-10-18 20:43 +0100
                Re: [ES Matrix] Suggestions Mike Duffy <md_002@videotron.ca> - 2013-10-18 21:39 -0400
  Re: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2013-10-16 20:45 +0200
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      Re: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2013-10-17 20:53 +0300
        Re: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2013-10-17 18:57 +0100
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