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typo + noise-reduction suggestiontypo + noise-reduction suggestionPosted Jun 20, 2003 2:58 UTC (Fri) by roelofs (subscriber, #2599)Parent article: Big changes to ext3 and journaling It's presence in ext3 ... "It's" == "it is" or "it has," nothing else. This is possessive. Since there are often little typos like this (including the ones in the SCO quarterly report, which made the original text somewhat incomprehensible), and fixit comments contribute absolutely nothing to the discussion beyond (hopefully) getting the typos fixed, would you consider adding a "typos" contact method of some sort? Either an e-mail address or just a new modifier to the regular comment page (e.g., Comment type: [X] Article commentary (public) [ ] Editorial correction (private)) would suffice. The latter could easily be filtered into a special e-mail bin or whatever, which would allow you to set your priority appropriately for reading them. (And there would never be any need to reply to such things. ;-) ) Just a thought. Greg
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typo + noise-reduction suggestion Posted Jun 20, 2003 15:35 UTC (Fri) by ris (editor, #5) [Link] Send typos to lwn@lwn.net and they will get seen and fixed.
typo + noise-reduction suggestion Posted Jun 21, 2003 0:39 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] That's good information, but it doesn't respond to the suggestion.Most readers who want to report typos will continue to use the comment facility because they will not have seen this comment. Maybe a line could be added to the comment instructions: "If you're just reporting a typo, please email instead of commenting." I'd like to add that sometimes I find something in an article incomprehensible for reasons other than a typo. Missing background information, undefined terms, etc. If LWN editors are willing to fix things like that after publication, email for that should also be encouraged. And it would be nice if the emailer got a personal reply describing the fix, since he's not going to read the article again.
typo + noise-reduction suggestion Posted Jun 21, 2003 0:44 UTC (Sat) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] "That's good information, but it doesn't respond to the suggestion."I've been watching the conversation. Some sort of "feedback" button makes a great deal of sense, and I'll implement it. At least, I've just put it on the list, it may be a bit before I can hack it up. Also on the list for a while now is making it easier to find our contact info in general. jon
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