toki wrote: > On 21/01/2016 19:47, Keith N. McKenna wrote: > >> this license or that license, > > ASF pretty much dictates that the Apache License be used. > We could have gone the ODFAuthors route and used the existing version 3 documentation as a baseline and up-grade it to version 3.4. But there was so much static that we needed to do it under the Apache License that the effort was abandoned.
>> wiki based or not etc etc. ad infinitum. > > That is a clash of psycho-epistemological Weltanschauung. A clash that > will probably remain until the diaper set are the PHBs. > > If there are enough editors, etc, then all formats can be supported. If > they aren't, then does the documentation effort support marketing AOO to > the corporate world, or marketing AOO to students, or marketing AOO to > individuals? > > Thus far, the focus of the documentation project has been on supporting > the marketing of AOO to students, not individuals, and not the corporate > world. > Actually that is incorrect. One individual has done a print/PDF guide aimed at students. The main documentation project has been aimed at producing highly linked wiki-based documentation that proceeds from high level overview down to specific detail level. At least that was the theory. >> Meanwhile the documentation grows more and more out of date, and > volunteers grow frustrated and go elsewhere > > How out of date the documentation is, depends upon what specific piece > one is looking at. > > I focus on printed manuals/PDFs. > >> the fact remains that if no one steps forward with the necessary skill > s to fulfill the role you propose it is not going to happen. > > There is a fundamental disconnect between what I outlined, and The > Apache Way. > That is very true, but if you are not willing or able to step forward and volunteer to take a crack at getting it working than all one is doing is contributing to the noise and not to the solution of the problem at hand. Keith > a) The emails are person to person, not person to group; > b) "You do" violates a core principle --- all are equals; > c) It requires a person who not only makes decisions, but enforces them, > _regardless_ of group input. > > jonathon > > >
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