what I should say clearly is that I believe a quality getting started is important, not the rants of the current doc, but something sweet short and to the point, 30 pages max. But a condensed version.
I want more than just a 4 pages html like david budworth said, if you look at the current doc it is old and a lot of it is out of date, this way we would make sure that even the getting started stuff, probably very close to a workbook format lets your use our product in a significant fashion. We also make sure that it is of professional quality. Getting the advanced features to work properly and *documented by the developer* is a tricky thing, in fact it is an un-solved problem in open source. I hope this will dramatically improve the quality of the advanced documentation on JBoss. As JBoss grows, and grows fast getting this in place is important, also having professional for sale documentation will reassure people that we are more than just a few students working on open source, a wide perception of OSS, I think it will help change that. done right I think it can be the best thing, a real win-win for everyone. done poorly it would kill us. don't worry my mission is to keep JBoss, the free product, alive growing and kicking ass... marcf |-----Original Message----- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of marc |fleury |Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 9:31 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; jBoss Developer |Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] /. -> want you to tell about my fears .... | | || And for the most part it's a great idea - but you really odda consider || providing some decent enough docs at least for people to get started on, || otherwise I imagine you'll find alot of people never getting started at || all... | |I don't get it, that is what we are talking about making a getstarted stuff |free and good and then the advanced stuff for a fee, did I fail to |communicate this? | |marcf | | |_______________________________________________ |Jboss-development mailing list |[EMAIL PROTECTED] |https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development _______________________________________________ Jboss-development mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development