On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 10:43 -0800, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Russel Winder > <[email protected]> wrote: > I think this is an opportunity for a community based > approach. > > In my experience, community based documentations always end up in a > disaster (especially wiki based ones). You end up trading quality for > quantity and you lose a lot of consistency.
Only if the wiki is the final product -- I agree community written
documentation is generally not great. For me community input is input
to ensure the final document attacks the problems that people actually
have. At the end of the day there is no substitute for having one
person write the whole of the final content.
>
> I'd rather see a two-three page one person guide than fifty pages of
> mishmash information cobbled together without overall vision.
>
I'd rather have the fifty page one-person guide myself :-)
I agree about overall vision, I had thought I'd said that. Clearly I
didn't. Sorry.
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Russel.
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