Value working software above extensive documentation

-----Original Message-----
From: Chen, Pei [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 5:21 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Apache Confluence wiki for documentation?

We just need to build software that doesn't require a manual to use ;)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bleeker, Troy C. [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 5:06 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Apache Confluence wiki for documentation?
> 
> Right. There has always been one version of the doc per release online 
> and would continue to be done the same. If you ship it with the 
> release there is still a version of the help for every release. That's 
> true if you contend for a doc fix that could only go into one release 
> and not the next.  For example, you could document a work-around in 
> 2.6, fix the problem in 3.0, and now the 3.0 documentation needs none 
> of the 2.6 wording. So you're still building separate versions when shipped 
> with the releases.
> 
> Thanks
> Troy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ctakes-dev-return-393-
> [email protected] [mailto:ctakes-dev-return- 
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Britt 
> Fitch
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 3:59 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Apache Confluence wiki for documentation?
> 
> I also like to have documentation shipped with the code. If 
> documentation is web only then there needs to be multiple versions 
> maintained anyway, otherwise you force everyone to update to have support.
> 
> Britt
> 
> On Sep 14, 2012, at 10:26 AM, Jörn Kottmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On 09/14/2012 04:19 PM, Masanz, James J. wrote:
> >> I also prefer to not distribute the documentation with the release.
> >
> > I actually prefer to have the documentation included in the 
> > distribution, because then I can always easily access the 
> > documentation which matches the version I am working with and do not 
> > have to go somewhere to find it.
> >
> > Jörn

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