William T. Marchant wrote:
... I still think the revision of the contribution
page under documentation should be done by someone who has a better
understanding of the whole picture than I do.
I agree that rewriting that page should be done by someone with a
better understanding, but if you (or anyone else) could point to
specific things that need to be clearer, that helps people like
me provide the answers. Nancy's earlier questions were good ones
and should help when one of us has time to work on the page again.
It's far too easy for us "in the know" to forget that something
we don't even think about (take as a given) is obscure or unknown
to others. My favourite example of this is when I was trying to
get set up to use CVS on the OOo website. First I had to get SSH
access. After some days of frustration as people tried to help me
and got nowhere, someone discovered that I was not a "member" of
the Documentation Project. No one had said that was an essential
first step! Indeed, I had been on the Docs mailing list for so
long that I didn't realise that I wasn't a "member" of the
project. (You'll notice that "become a member" is step 2 on the
"How you can help" list now.)
Cheers, Jean
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