[OpenStack-docs] Copying from wikipedia ;(

Olga Gusarenko ogusarenko at mirantis.com
Mon Jul 13 03:47:58 UTC 2015


Hi to all!

Besides autocheck for the text uniqueness, I believe we should cover the
matter for the contributors. What if I add licensing and copywriting as a
seperate section of the Contributor guide spec?
13 июля 2015 г. 6:15 пользователь "Lana Brindley" <
openstack at lanabrindley.com> написал:

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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.
> >
> > L
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> - --
> Lana Brindley
> Technical Writer
> Rackspace Cloud Builders Australia
> http://lanabrindley.com
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