marc fleury wrote: > The model for the book and documentation is that we are going to only > support the professional documentation. > > Free documentation is just too hard, the guys who write it usually do it and > leave, it comes under heavy criticism still today (see theserverside.com > thread) and generally has been a pain. I have had enough of it. > > We are going to a model where you pay for the documentation, the free doco > is just going to die. I don't think I will even distribute it any more.
OK. I see. I wasn't aware of this - I've been converting the FAQ to docbook to go along with the manual and attempting to extend its coverage, but it seems this will be a bit of a pointless exercise if the online docmumentation is to be scrapped. I thought the documentation trees had just been branched recently with a view to providing separate docs for 2 and 3? > > This is a simple way to make some money FOR THE DEVELOPERS OF THE FEATURES > and grow professionally. Don't you think it is also in the interest of the developers to maintain a few FAQs to keep people off their backs too. I think it was Dain who asked whether there was a FAQ a while back because he was getting fed up with people posting questions about EJB 2.0 CMP. > If the guys reading the statement are too cheap to shell out $10 for the > documentation I am really not going to worry about them, I am not very > concerned about them. In fact I want them gone, > That's fair enough - if people want to use JBoss seriously then they should be prepared to do this. But for someone who's having a look for the first time, to see what it is and how it works, the first thing they're going to look for is some documentation, howtos etc. Either that or they'll start posting unnecessarily in the forums. Perhaps the scope of the online stuff should be cut down but you should keep the basic howto's on getting started, setting up datasources and so on. Luke. -- Luke Taylor. Monkey Machine Ltd. PGP Key ID: 0x57E9523C http://www.mkeym.com _______________________________________________ Jboss-development mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development
