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Hrm, I wonder how easy it would be to automate a check for this? I might
go poke an Infra person.

L

On 13/07/15 13:13, Meg McRoberts wrote:
> I found at least one instance and I think maybe two as we've been convertingthe HA Guide to RST.  We're doing minor edits as we convert and these involvedhideous sentences that a reviewer called out as needing to be rewritten.  I happenedto be checking Wikipaedia for something else and there was exactly the same hideouslybad sentence ;-)
> I would like to think that Stackers had the common decency to only plageurize good stuff ;-)
> I defer to others to determine the right way to handle this, but I suspect we may have a fairamount of plageurized material in the guides.  Or, who knows?  Maybe someone plageurizedthe OpenStack docs when writing the Wikipedia articles...
> meg
> 
>  
>       From: Lana Brindley <openstack at lanabrindley.com>
>  To: openstack-docs at lists.openstack.org 
>  Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2015 6:27 PM
>  Subject: Re: [OpenStack-docs] Copying from wikipedia ;(
>    
> On 13/07/15 10:54, Anita Kuno wrote:
>> On 07/12/2015 08:34 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
>>> On 2015-07-12 14:50:32 +0200 (+0200), Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> Jeremy, I'm just wondering whether we should add a line to the infra manual
>>>> (
>>>> http://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html#sign-the-appropriate-individual-contributor-license-agreement)
>>>> stating what the CLA is about.
>>>
>>> That's probably okay, though summarizing legal documents is tricky
>>> business (lawyers generally tell you that if the explanation of a
>>> legal document is shorter than the document itself, then either it's
>>> an insufficient explanation or the legal document being explained is
>>> poorly-written).
>>>
> 
>> I'm actually finding that the time taken to inform people how to use
>> common sense is an increasing contributor anti-pattern, not just to
>> documentation.
> 
>> I'm not offering an opinion about what-is-to-be-done, I'm saying that
>> needed to do anything about behaviour which is in direct contravention
>> of standard open source behaviour is really draining on our community as
>> a whole.
> 
> I agree with you Anita, and that's why I'm happy with just calling out
> the behaviour, mentioning it directly to the individual, and then
> getting on with our lives. This doesn't happen often enough (at least,
> that we know of) for us to make any significant changes. I'm happy with
> a one line "don't plagiarise!" to cover this base.
> 
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