Hi All, >> ..I'd prefer to we follow a "Harbour-Fund" financing model. That is, >> we start making donations to a common-treasure and let project >> leaders decide and make "hiring" agreements for manual creation, or >> whatever would help project's improvement. >> But, of course, let's hear other harbour followers opinions. > > xHarbour.com has excellent documentation and for last four or five years > they have not been able to sell enough copy to receive back money they had > to pay for professional documentation writer. And here we have ready product > not sth what may appear in the future. If ready to use product cannot be > sold in enough number of copies then for sure we have no chance to collect > enough money for sth what does not exist yet. > Instead starting such foundation may be the end of Harbour. It will not > allow to collect enough money to pay professional documentation writer > but it may be the source of never ending discussion when the documentation > will have been finished addressed to me and some other core developers. > I'm not slave of Harbour users and for sure I will not tolerate such > messages for long time. > > This is my last massage in this thread. I strongly suggest to invest > resources necessary to create such long messages about "how to create > harbour documentation" in creating some real documentation. It will > be really productive.
Very well summed up. Small addition: _Asking others_ to create a fund (just like doing the same with docs) won't help the case either (I also don't have any notion to deal with any sort of common money, as discussed a few times in the past). Pls note that _anyone_ is free to create a fund and deal with the sponsoration of doc writing, or any other matter whatsoever. Harbour admins/core developers aren't needed for this. To make it clear: I'm personally not interested in writing docs even if paid for, and other core developers has stated this clearly too in the past. [ After waiting some days for the original thread on user's list taking any sort of constructive direction, I had made the decision to ban the thread starter, on the grounds that he went into an unstoppable monologue, which is off-topic regarding Harbour user's list, and really doesn't help to solve any problems. ] Viktor _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list (attachment size limit: 40KB) Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
