Hello there,
Sebastien, I think we share the same concerns. I agree that good, stylish documentation is a great way to grow a community (e.g. I love Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby at http://poignantguide.net/ruby/). I've been looking at the efforts that you and Helga have begun over at http://www.epseelon.org/cocooninaction/. Have you had much feedback on your efforts? Are you continuing with the initiative? For my complementary effort at http://www.spreadcocoon.com I've had plenty of offline messages of support, but I haven't yet been able to get a dialogue going on the mailing lists about the site's future value. I'll keep trying!
Stefano, are you saying you /don't/ want me to survey the mailing list membership? If so, do other people feel that strongly? I can understand how such a poll might be provocative, but I'm hoping that good would come of it!
Best regards, Mark
On 11 May 2005, at 17:58, Sebastien Arbogast wrote:
Can it be shown that this downward trend is not a result of improving documentation?
Or maybe it's because the documentation is still so "messy" (I'm sure it's going to change with the new effort but it's still the case) that more and more people try Cocoon, don't manage to figure it out and finally fall back to better documented alternative solutions. At least it's the way I personally feel it because I'm convinced that IF the objective is to make the community wider, documentation is the key. But it's just my personal opinion ;-)
-- Sebastien ARBOGAST
