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 -- Les pages de manuel Linux en français http://manpagesfr.free.fr/
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