Yes, sorry for missing this, Russell. Maybe the best of both worlds is an internal wiki from which one person can mine the necessary information and put it together in one coherent public doc.
-- ***Cédric * On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:05 AM, John Murph <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/12/11 Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> > > >> >> 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. >> >> I'd rather see a two-three page one person guide than fifty pages of >> mishmash information cobbled together without overall vision. >> >> -- >> ***Cédric >> * >> >> > I think this is why Russell said "In the end every document benefits from > having a last person who writes everything...." The idea, I think, is to > get the content from everyone and then have a single person put it together > into a cohesive whole. This person will do the lion's share of the work, > but not having to generate all the content as well is a huge burden > removed. With this approach, the idea is that one person would not have to > dedicate as much time which makes the whole effort more likely to happen. > > > -- > John Murph > Automated Logic Research Team >
