Hi,
Can somebody tell me what are a beat contributor and a beat writer?
Regards, Alain
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Alain PORTAL schreef:
Hi,
Can somebody tell me what are a beat contributor and a beat writer?
Regards, Alain
Hi Alain,
snippet from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats - ----------- The release notes are separated into beats. A beat, derived from newspaper and laboratory usage, is the act of reporting news or research results; or a round or course which is frequently gone over, by a newspaper reporter or a law enforcement officer ("beat cop").
These are the pages where the release notes beats are written. Content here may be derived from bugzilla reports and mailing list discussions.
Each beat has one or more beat writers, as assigned on the release notes beats page. The beat writer(s) are in charge of the beat pages. These pages are open for all to contribute. If you know something that should be in the release notes, this is the place to put it. - -----------
Basically a beat contributor is someone who added something to a beat, while the writer is "responsible" for that beat (getting it into shape, making sure it's ready, etc)
Regards, Bart
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Le lundi 30 avril 2007, Bart Couvreur a écrit :
Alain PORTAL schreef:
Hi,
Can somebody tell me what are a beat contributor and a beat writer?
Regards, Alain
Hi Alain,
snippet from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats
The release notes are separated into beats. A beat, derived from newspaper and laboratory usage, is the act of reporting news or research results; or a round or course which is frequently gone over, by a newspaper reporter or a law enforcement officer ("beat cop").
These are the pages where the release notes beats are written. Content here may be derived from bugzilla reports and mailing list discussions.
Each beat has one or more beat writers, as assigned on the release notes beats page. The beat writer(s) are in charge of the beat pages. These pages are open for all to contribute. If you know something that should be in the release notes, this is the place to put it.
Basically a beat contributor is someone who added something to a beat, while the writer is "responsible" for that beat (getting it into shape, making sure it's ready, etc)
I think I understand, unfortunately, I don't find a french equivalent :( If a french contributor can help me ;-)
Thanks to you and Milos.
Regards Alain
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 13:55 +0200, Alain PORTAL wrote:
I think I understand, unfortunately, I don't find a french equivalent :( If a french contributor can help me ;-)
As the person responsible for using this idiom, I apologize. :)
I think you are safe to drop the word entirely. Writer and contributor stand-alone without any need of modification.
If any language has an equivalent, please use it. The reason is, it (tries) to teach/inform about the open source methodology and that anyone can get involved, even in the smallest ways, and make a difference.
- Karsten
Le lundi 30 avril 2007, Alain PORTAL a écrit :
Hi,
Can somebody tell me what are a beat contributor and a beat writer?
Nobody can't help?
On 4/30/07, Alain PORTAL alain.portal@free.fr wrote:
Le lundi 30 avril 2007, Alain PORTAL a écrit :
Can somebody tell me what are a beat contributor and a beat writer?
People who contribute to, or write "beats".
I'm not a native English speaker nor a beat contributor, but the way I understand, "beats" are smallest logical bits/short sections of the release notes, like e.g a "beat" on Xorg, a "beat" on the kernel, etc.
More on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats
HTH, Miloš
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 11:51:27AM +0100, Milo?? Komar??evi?? wrote:
I'm not a native English speaker nor a beat contributor, but the way I understand, "beats" are smallest logical bits/short sections of the release notes, like e.g a "beat" on Xorg, a "beat" on the kernel, etc.
"beat" also has other meanings - for example with policemen a "beat" is the area they walk and deal with.
In the case of journalists (which is the one we want) its used in the same way to mean a writer assigned to a specific item. A beat writer might for example be assigned to "report every Manchester United football game", and that is all they would do. His/her job is to know everything (and everyone) around that specific topic.
Le lundi 30 avril 2007, Alan Cox a écrit :
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 11:51:27AM +0100, Milo?? Komar??evi?? wrote:
I'm not a native English speaker nor a beat contributor, but the way I understand, "beats" are smallest logical bits/short sections of the release notes, like e.g a "beat" on Xorg, a "beat" on the kernel, etc.
"beat" also has other meanings - for example with policemen a "beat" is the area they walk and deal with.
In the case of journalists (which is the one we want) its used in the same way to mean a writer assigned to a specific item. A beat writer might for example be assigned to "report every Manchester United football game", and that is all they would do. His/her job is to know everything (and everyone) around that specific topic.
Can we say this is similar to a column in journalism?
Alain
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 06:39:33PM +0200, Alain PORTAL wrote:
that is all they would do. His/her job is to know everything (and everyone) around that specific topic.
Can we say this is similar to a column in journalism?
Vaguely - a column may discuss different topics each week depending what the columnist wants to write about so could be very varied. A beat writer isn't neccessarily producing stuff each week for a slot either, they may produce little some times (eg if they cover the Rugby they might do little in summer but in the playing season be doing regular pieces, and special coverage and if teams do well putting together material for pullout extras as well as pieces to order whenever something happens)
Le lundi 30 avril 2007, Alan Cox a écrit :
Can we say this is similar to a column in journalism?
Vaguely - a column may discuss different topics each week depending what the columnist wants to write about so could be very varied. A beat writer isn't neccessarily producing stuff each week for a slot either, they may produce little some times (eg if they cover the Rugby they might do little in summer but in the playing season be doing regular pieces, and special coverage and if teams do well putting together material for pullout extras as well as pieces to order whenever something happens)
Well, I understand what you mean. But I don't know if there is a full equivalent in french for that word :(
Translator is a difficult job ;-)
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