On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 17:09 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: > A few things: > > 1) I don't know that Don is actually interested in the writing > side of things. Although if you offer to fly him somewhere nice, > he might become interested. :) Prior to me, the guy responsible > for the team was not the guy responsible for the tools. After me, > it will probably return to that. I've bred Don to be my hacking > replacement, not my writing replacement.
I see. So, any writers other than yourself? > 2) At the moment, the answer to the question "what needs work?" > is basically "everything". If we're not actually writing, then > I don't know how useful it is for us to compile a list of what's > wrong. A list of what needs to be done will be quickly out of > date if nobody is writing. (Pulse can help immensely here, if > we just iron out some kinks and get it running somewhere.) Then just get together and do stuff. > 3) Compiling a list of problems (and even recommendations for > addressing those problems) is very likely something I can do > on my own, given sufficient time. Flying me somewhere nice > is probably less economical and less productive than just > finding a cell in Champaign you can lock me in. Finding a cell and locking you in your home town is harder than locking you in a hotel room in some remote place. That would also make you feel bad if you end up *not* working on what you promised :P. > 4) Mallard will drastically change the way we organize stuff > inside our documentation. Putting people together in a room > to plan out how to restructure our DocBook is like forming a > committee to rearrange deck chairs on the Titanic. What about putting people in the same room to do this Mallard thing then? I know that's what you proposed. Feel like following up? Send a mail to Vincent and myself and we go from there. > -- > Shaun -- behdad http://behdad.org/ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
