David,
I don't get the proposition that there are 100 different pilot roles.
There are many 1,000s of different destinations. Maybe more than a
dozen different pilot roles (commercial, fighter, bomber, spotter,
etc.). But but there IS a lowest common denominator. They all fly
planes. They all start off on fixed wing, single engine props. They all
need to understand basic navigation, aerodynamics, flight-engineering etc.
But it is very basic. The need to understand lift, drag, how to
calculate take off velocities etc. But I doubt if they start of with 3D
vector calculus or need to know what a Reynold's number is.
So why can't the target be whatever denominators are common to all pilots?
How to find the door handle and the start button would be top of my
list. If they can't find those then they ain't never gonna fly.
Ian
David E. Jones wrote:
On Jan 20, 2007, at 1:25 AM, Ian McNulty wrote:
David,
I can see where you're coming from on this. This project is better
documented than anything else I've seen in the field.You yourself
have produced a truly awesome amount of documentation. I don't know
where you find the time. All are extremely well written, very clear,
very well laid out. A model of their kind. (No I'm not sucking up - I
mean it :) So what could possibly be the problem.
I found the Introduction Videos and Diagrams page you link to here a
couple of days ago myself.
It was whilst working through these videos that the light bulb went off.
What you're talking us through is a diagram of the wiring harness of
a jumbo jet.
Essential for the engineers who need to service it.
Absolutely the last kind of map a pilot wants to find on his lap.
Know what I mean?
Uh, yeah, that's because it is meant to cover the framework, not the
applications. The two are very different, change very differently,
need to be understood by different people in different ways, etc. My
current estimate is that to produce something adequate for a "pilot",
given that there are about 100 different "pilot" roles in OFBiz, would
require many times the effort to produce that the framework videos
with their diagrams, reference materials, transcriptions, etc. Right
now I don't have the $500k to get into that... and the $40k already
spent on the documents which are now PDF-dumped into the
docs.ofbiz.org site was clearly inadequate, especially as it is mostly
reference materials (which is why you won't find how-to stuff in the
reference guides, they are references after all, just for reference
purposes). The Application Overview for Users is probably more of what
you're looking for, though that section only represents maybe 3-5% of
what is in OFBiz right now.
Of course, that's assuming such documents could even be written in a
way that is close to generally useful. How do I use it? Well, that
depends on what you want to do... and unfortunately across a few
different industries that list grows into hundreds of thousands of
activities...
So, that's the big question with any document: who is the target
audience? The more specific the answer, the better the document will
address their needs. But who is the target audience for OFBiz? ... ?
-David
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