Hi Rene,
Thanks for your reply. Sorry I just sent out my last email without having seen yours. My comments inline. >> To continue with the documentation (at least on the path I have taken so >> far) I need to better understand the vision. That will allow me to resolve >> and clarify the topics previously raised regarding the community’s approach >> to dealing with newbies. > > Well I believe a bit like Benoit on this. I think most of the time, users are > asking stuff because, as I raised in point 3, our documentation is outdated, > mixed between different products all together, not versioned, and very > confusing. > > With the efforts made on rebranding our products towards a more > understandable user approach and reworking the documentation with Antora, > with a versioning, and having a clear separation between James flavors, it > would already help a lot more the users on how to use James regarding their > needs, and might decrease the overall need for help with the community. > > Also the release process was a bit long and painful as I understood, thus we > were only updating the doc when doing a release, so lots of fixes stay > hanging for a while. I believe with Antora and Eugen work to automate the > build and website release he did (I hope I'm not wrong?), it might make it > much easier as well to keep our documentation up-to-date. Great! So it sounds like there **is** some interest in taking a more user-centric approach. That is exactly what I am trying to gauge and understand. 😀 > I believe as well trying to add a bunch of how-tos regarding the topics that > an admin might likely be interested to setup with James or what seems to be > recurrent struggles of users might help too. That would be great!! > Honestly thank you greatly for all the time and thinking you have been > putting into this new James documentation with a more user-focused mindset. I > believe it helped the project greatly being more community friendly ! Thank you for letting me know. I am relieved that it is useful. 😅 In that case, I am happy to continue, albeit at an even slower pace. Cheers, =David --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-dev-unsubscr...@james.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: server-dev-h...@james.apache.org
