On Tuesday 21 August 2007 18:20, Kevin R. Bulgrien wrote: > > I'm sorry if I'm feeling my temper on this, but that's really BS. Any > > 2-minutes search on the Wiki would have told you what you needed to know > > about the extension alongside with an example script (heck, I didn't even > > know which keywords would have worked to find the cfdialog page - I just > > tried the first words coming into my mind on that topic !). Now, if even a > > search in the Wiki is asking too much to a map-maker, then maybe we should > > plainly ask the question of the pertinence of maintaining a documentation > > wiki in the first place. > > The full-auto, .50 cal. reply does nothing for the project. I am sorry > to have offended you. Whether you see it or not, there _is_ a wall that > people face when they are not the author's of a feature. Your complaint > that people didn't know about the feature proves something, and I do know > exactly what I am up against when I try to do new things in crossfire. I > did, you know, just figure out autoconf/automake when other developers are > too lazy to do it, so I could do the libglade conversion, so this is not > at about being willing or not willing to dig, but it is about facilitating > people at overcoming barriers with discriminate redundancy, which is a > known quality of good training. Two minutes is sufficient to drive most > people away from something if they know an easier way. match is easier. > All your points about resources are good. They will help if I feel like > taking on what I firmly believe will help people use the feature. Whether > I did it correctly or not might be in question, but the motive behind what > and why I wrote is for the good of the project, and not to knock a skilled > and valued individual. Please take some time to try to believe that. > > Kevin
And after about 3.5 hours of digging... though honestly about an hour was lost to getting a server compiled, all I have to add is this: http://wiki.metalforge.net/doku.php/cfdialog It will _not_ take the next guy 2-3 hours. Kevin _______________________________________________ crossfire mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire
