Lucia Cosima Eiselstein wrote: > > Pascal Van Hecke wrote: > > If you're afraid to ask questions, how can we help you? > > I'd rather answer a question once too often than once too little. > > I think that Pascal is right. The lack of information is one reason that > I wasn't able to use Midgard the right way, because I had to search so > much for informations that I often didn't find. Perhaps it's also the > reason that I will not try to install it on my new machine any more > because it is to stressfull. Although I would really need something like > Midgard.
No offence, but it's all good and well (and rather easy) to point out the flaw yet do nothing about it. If someone is up to helping us to clean up the documentation, nobody would be happier than me. In the past I've even offered to give the person(s) writing the docs prioritized one-to-one support in exchange for work on the manual. Noone has taken me up on it. > If there would be a real source of information which is searchable in a > good way and administered for actuality, a lot of questions wouldn't be > asked. That means there would be more time for eliminating bugs and a > faster development would be possible. If you read the mailinglist for a > longer time, you will register that the same questions appear several > times. In my opinion it's very important to change this. OK, so get in gear. Seriously. Writing documentation and keeping it up to date is hard and takes lots of effort and time, and time is exactly what I don't have much of. Also, as you may also have noted, the manual has blind spots, and that's because _the developers have blind spots_. Things that are trivial to us because we've spent the last 3 years working on them get forgotten in the manual because we forget it can be an issue; IOW, we _need_ a non-developer to work on the manual _precisely_ because it's a non-spoiled, fresh look on the matter. Whoever decides to get the docs in shape can count on my full support in doing so, and I assume Alexander feels the same way. See a question asked and answered too many times? Pick my brain, write something about it, put it in the docs. Emile --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
