On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 7:06 PM, Niall Douglas via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
Thanks Niall for putting this together! A few comments:
* "Otherwise, you will just end up wasting everyone's time." This sentence is a bit abrasive. I suggest striking it. * "If what you really want is a site that will just post your library without even looking at it, you should go elsewhere." likewise * "and the emotional demands of a formal review" likewise. If you want to give the reader a heads up about the ego-crushing force of critiques by brilliant people, I would probably word it differently.
These three are from the original page before this round of editing. It's possible I wrote them once, I'd have to check the history as I've changed that page quite a few times. But I also may not have done.
You make a valid point though. One of my aims was to make the page more inclusive and welcoming and encouraging. The above could be better worded.
* "Too often" . . . this sounds a bit rantish.
Good catch.
Actually, I think I'll stop here for now. I like the idea of this and I think you've got a lot of good ideas in here. The wording needs a little TLC IMHO. Would you be willing to let me take a stab at massaging it a bit?
If you're volunteering, then rock on, I would find that very helpful.
I've pushed the current draft to my fork of boostorg/website and you can find it at https://github.com/ned14/website/commit/50a9b67aa14dba610a81 c1b7542a3bbf8abb97a8. This also provides a diff for those interested in that. I've invited you @camio to collaborate on that repo, it should give you commit and push access.
Once you've made your changes I can pull them onto boost-website.nedprod.com so we can all see them here for review.
Thanks. It looks like you already made some tone adjustments. Much better. I did some more wordsmithing in https://github.com/ned14/website/commit/ 72e3e7ce4351282a2da6d031633e7b0268cb36bc