Re: [GLISS] differentiating pre/post/neutral commands

[Graham Percival]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 05:43:58PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:
> > So I'm with Graham:
> >
> > 2012/9/3 Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> >> I do not think that musicians have nothing valuable
> >> to say.  I *especially* do not agree that documentation writers or
> >> teachers (in person) have nothing valuable to say.
> 
> I'd wish our documentation writers had a lot _more_ to say...

So far they haven't had a welcoming environment to express their
views.  Our top three doc writers are me, Trevor, and James; all
three of whom have felt quite disrespected at least once in the
past year.

Language is a tool which affects people in different ways.
Perhaps doc writers are more sensitive to language; perhaps it's a
cross-cultural issue; perhaps it's just a fluke.  The bottom line
is that the lilypond development community has lost potential
documentation work (and ideas) due to the way that some emails
were written.  I am, of course, trying to repair this damage and
guide the community into not causing such damage in the future,
but it takes time.

- Graham