# HG changeset patch
# User Daniel Veillard <veillard@src.gnome.org>
# Date 1042190599 0
# Fri Jan 10 09:23:19 2003 +0000
# Node ID b51a899ef6c6e78db78e48d8292f0cedce112469
# Parent eb579f1bc0f84b38697107b8bdb8c981343a3602
Be really clear about support guidelines, Daniel
diff --git a/doc/bugs.html b/doc/bugs.html
--- a/doc/bugs.html
+++ b/doc/bugs.html
@@ -117,7 +117,8 @@
cases I'm not the best person to answer a given question, ask the list
instead. <strong>Do not send code, I won't debug it</strong> (but patches are
really appreciated!).</p>
-<p>Check the following too before posting:</p>
+<p>Check the following too <span style="color: #E50000">before
+posting</span>:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="search.php">use the search engine</a> to get informations
@@ -136,6 +137,25 @@
<li>Please send the command showing the error as well as the input and
stylesheet (as an attachment)</li>
</ul>
+<p>Then send the bug with associated informations to reproduce it to the <a href="mailto:xslt@gnome.org">xslt@gnome.org</a> list; if it's really libxslt
+related I will approve it. Please do not send mail to me directly, it makes
+things really hard to track and in some cases I am not the best person to
+answer a given question, ask on the list.</p>
+<p>To <span style="color: #E50000">be really clear about support</span>:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>Support or help <span style="color: #E50000">request MUST be sent to
+ the list or on bugzilla</span> in case of problems, so that the Question
+ and Answers can be shared publicly. Failing to do so carries the implicit
+ message "I want free support but I don't want to share the benefits with
+ others" and is not welcome.</li>
+ <li>There is <span style="color: #E50000">no garantee for support</span>,
+ if your question remains unanswered after a week, repost it, making sure
+ you gave all the detail needed and the informations requested.</li>
+ <li>Failing to provide informations as requested or double checking first
+ for prior feedback also carries the implicit message "the time of the
+ library maintainers is less valuable than my time" and might not be
+ welcome.</li>
+</ul>
<p>Of course, bugs reports with a suggested patch for fixing them will
probably be processed faster.</p>
<p>If you're looking for help, a quick look at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xslt/">the list archive</a> may actually
diff --git a/doc/contribs.html b/doc/contribs.html
--- a/doc/contribs.html
+++ b/doc/contribs.html
@@ -88,9 +88,9 @@
spent quite some time debugging non-trivial problems in early versions of
libxslt</li>
<li>
-<a href="mailto:igor@zlatkovic.com">Igor Zlatkovic</a> is now
- the maintainer of the Windows port, <a href="http://www.zlatkovic.com/projects/libxml/index.html">he
- provides binaries</a>
+<a href="mailto:igor@zlatkovic.com">Igor Zlatkovic</a> is now the
+ maintainer of the Windows port, <a href="http://www.zlatkovic.com/projects/libxml/index.html">he provides
+ binaries</a>
</li>
<li>Thomas Broyer provided a lot of suggestions, and drafted most of the
extension API</li>
diff --git a/doc/downloads.html b/doc/downloads.html
--- a/doc/downloads.html
+++ b/doc/downloads.html
@@ -87,12 +87,11 @@
you need the <a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/libxml2.html">libxml2</a>,
<a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/libxml2-devel.html">libxml2-devel</a>,
<a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/libxslt.html">libxslt</a> and <a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/libxslt-devel.html">libxslt-devel</a>
-packages installed to compile applications using libxslt.) <a href="mailto:igor@zlatkovic.com">Igor Zlatkovic</a> is now the
-maintainer of the Windows port, <a href="http://www.zlatkovic.com/projects/libxml/index.html">he
-provides binaries</a>. <a href="mailto:Gary.Pennington@sun.com">Gary
-Pennington</a> provides <a href="http://garypennington.net/libxml2/">Solaris
-binaries</a>. <a href="mailto:Steve.Ball@zveno.com">Steve Ball</a> provides
-<a href="http://www.zveno.com/open_source/libxml2xslt.html">Mac Os X
+packages installed to compile applications using libxslt.) <a href="mailto:igor@zlatkovic.com">Igor Zlatkovic</a> is now the maintainer of
+the Windows port, <a href="http://www.zlatkovic.com/projects/libxml/index.html">he provides
+binaries</a>. <a href="mailto:Gary.Pennington@sun.com">Gary Pennington</a>
+provides <a href="http://garypennington.net/libxml2/">Solaris binaries</a>.
+<a href="mailto:Steve.Ball@zveno.com">Steve Ball</a> provides <a href="http://www.zveno.com/open_source/libxml2xslt.html">Mac Os X
binaries</a>.</p>
<p><a name="Contribs">Contribs:</a></p>
<p>I do accept external contributions, especially if compiling on another
diff --git a/doc/news.html b/doc/news.html
--- a/doc/news.html
+++ b/doc/news.html
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
<li>Improvement of the python bindings: extension functions and activating
EXSLT</li>
<li>various bug fixes: number formatting, portability for bounded string
- functions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns </li>
+ functions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns</li>
<li>Documentation improvements (John Fleck)</li>
<li>added libxslt.m4 (Thomas Schraitle)</li>
</ul>
diff --git a/doc/python.html b/doc/python.html
--- a/doc/python.html
+++ b/doc/python.html
@@ -112,15 +112,13 @@
interface have not yet reached the maturity of the C API.</p>
<p>
<a href="mailto:stephane.bidoul@softwareag.com">St�phane Bidoul</a>
-maintains <a href="http://users.skynet.be/sbi/libxml-python/">a Windows
-port of the Python bindings</a>.
-
-</p>
+maintains <a href="http://users.skynet.be/sbi/libxml-python/">a Windows port
+of the Python bindings</a>.</p>
<p>Note to people interested in building bindings, the API is formalized as
<a href="libxslt-api.xml">an XML API description file</a> which allows to
automate a large part of the Python bindings, this includes function
-descriptions, enums, structures, typedefs, etc... The Python script used
-to build the bindings is python/generator.py in the source distribution.</p>
+descriptions, enums, structures, typedefs, etc... The Python script used to
+build the bindings is python/generator.py in the source distribution.</p>
<p>To install the Python bindings there are 2 options:</p>
<ul>
<li>If you use an RPM based distribution, simply install the <a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libxml2-python">libxml2-python
diff --git a/doc/xslt.html b/doc/xslt.html
--- a/doc/xslt.html
+++ b/doc/xslt.html
@@ -119,7 +119,8 @@
instead. <strong>Do not send code, I won't debug it</strong> (but patches are
really appreciated!).</p>
-<p>Check the following too before posting:</p>
+<p>Check the following too <span style="color: #E50000">before
+posting</span>:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="search.php">use the search engine</a> to get informations
related to your problem.</li>
@@ -138,6 +139,28 @@
stylesheet (as an attachment)</li>
</ul>
+<p>Then send the bug with associated informations to reproduce it to the <a
+href="mailto:xslt@gnome.org">xslt@gnome.org</a> list; if it's really libxslt
+related I will approve it. Please do not send mail to me directly, it makes
+things really hard to track and in some cases I am not the best person to
+answer a given question, ask on the list.</p>
+
+<p>To <span style="color: #E50000">be really clear about support</span>:</p>
+<ul>
+ <li>Support or help <span style="color: #E50000">request MUST be sent to
+ the list or on bugzilla</span> in case of problems, so that the Question
+ and Answers can be shared publicly. Failing to do so carries the implicit
+ message "I want free support but I don't want to share the benefits with
+ others" and is not welcome.</li>
+ <li>There is <span style="color: #E50000">no garantee for support</span>,
+ if your question remains unanswered after a week, repost it, making sure
+ you gave all the detail needed and the informations requested.</li>
+ <li>Failing to provide informations as requested or double checking first
+ for prior feedback also carries the implicit message "the time of the
+ library maintainers is less valuable than my time" and might not be
+ welcome.</li>
+</ul>
+
<p>Of course, bugs reports with a suggested patch for fixing them will
probably be processed faster.</p>
@@ -186,13 +209,13 @@
<a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/libxslt.html">libxslt</a> and <a
href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/libxslt-devel.html">libxslt-devel</a>
packages installed to compile applications using libxslt.) <a
-href="mailto:igor@zlatkovic.com">Igor Zlatkovic</a> is now the
-maintainer of the Windows port, <a
-href="http://www.zlatkovic.com/projects/libxml/index.html">he
-provides binaries</a>. <a href="mailto:Gary.Pennington@sun.com">Gary
-Pennington</a> provides <a href="http://garypennington.net/libxml2/">Solaris
-binaries</a>. <a href="mailto:Steve.Ball@zveno.com">Steve Ball</a> provides
-<a href="http://www.zveno.com/open_source/libxml2xslt.html">Mac Os X
+href="mailto:igor@zlatkovic.com">Igor Zlatkovic</a> is now the maintainer of
+the Windows port, <a
+href="http://www.zlatkovic.com/projects/libxml/index.html">he provides
+binaries</a>. <a href="mailto:Gary.Pennington@sun.com">Gary Pennington</a>
+provides <a href="http://garypennington.net/libxml2/">Solaris binaries</a>.
+<a href="mailto:Steve.Ball@zveno.com">Steve Ball</a> provides <a
+href="http://www.zveno.com/open_source/libxml2xslt.html">Mac Os X
binaries</a>.</p>
<p><a name="Contribs">Contribs:</a></p>
@@ -244,7 +267,7 @@
<li>Improvement of the python bindings: extension functions and activating
EXSLT</li>
<li>various bug fixes: number formatting, portability for bounded string
- functions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns </li>
+ functions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns</li>
<li>Documentation improvements (John Fleck)</li>
<li>added libxslt.m4 (Thomas Schraitle)</li>
</ul>
@@ -811,15 +834,16 @@
<p>The distribution includes a set of Python bindings, which are garanteed to
be maintained as part of the library in the future, though the Python
interface have not yet reached the maturity of the C API.</p>
+
<p><a href="mailto:stephane.bidoul@softwareag.com">St�phane Bidoul</a>
-maintains <a href="http://users.skynet.be/sbi/libxml-python/">a Windows
-port of the Python bindings</a>.
+maintains <a href="http://users.skynet.be/sbi/libxml-python/">a Windows port
+of the Python bindings</a>.</p>
<p>Note to people interested in building bindings, the API is formalized as
<a href="libxslt-api.xml">an XML API description file</a> which allows to
automate a large part of the Python bindings, this includes function
-descriptions, enums, structures, typedefs, etc... The Python script used
-to build the bindings is python/generator.py in the source distribution.</p>
+descriptions, enums, structures, typedefs, etc... The Python script used to
+build the bindings is python/generator.py in the source distribution.</p>
<p>To install the Python bindings there are 2 options:</p>
<ul>
@@ -1901,10 +1925,10 @@
<li>William Brack was an early adopted, contributed a number of patches and
spent quite some time debugging non-trivial problems in early versions of
libxslt</li>
- <li><a href="mailto:igor@zlatkovic.com">Igor Zlatkovic</a> is now
- the maintainer of the Windows port, <a
- href="http://www.zlatkovic.com/projects/libxml/index.html">he
- provides binaries</a></li>
+ <li><a href="mailto:igor@zlatkovic.com">Igor Zlatkovic</a> is now the
+ maintainer of the Windows port, <a
+ href="http://www.zlatkovic.com/projects/libxml/index.html">he provides
+ binaries</a></li>
<li>Thomas Broyer provided a lot of suggestions, and drafted most of the
extension API</li>
<li>John Fleck maintains <a href="tutorial/libxslttutorial.html">a tutorial