David Up to a point... but committees do NOT write good, clean and consistent documents (in my experience anyway). The central author needs to be someone with the most overall knowledge, ably assisted by a good editor, who pulls everything together. I expect that experts would be drawn in as needed... and then you have a whole community to proof-read, cross-check etc. etc. I would argue that *this* is the "new-fashioned" approach.
Derek PS Remember we are not starting from scratch here. There is much that is excellent, some that is very good, and so on. But it does all need sorting out in a non ad-hoc way. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004/11/10 11:33:53 AM >>> Derek Hohls wrote: > Ralph > > Yup. I am not envious of any other open source package > ito community support and the intrinsic capability of the system > but I if had the odd, spare $10k or even $100k lying around > the first thing I would do is offer to hire some people (tech expert > + writer/editor) to redo all the documents; including the main > website and wiki. Plus produce a high quality "getting going" guide > (such as the one that projects like Hibernate has.) > > I can dream, right? > > Derek > > PS Yes, in theory, the above could be done by the community, > but in practice some old-fashioned, top-down, focussed effort is > actually what it takes to get something like this together. Or some new-fashioned concept, like Bertrand just suggested. It must be a community effort. It would be almost impossible for a small group of "experts" to document Cocoon. I doubt that anyone could say that they knew every aspect in detail. So we need to mobilise our current community. -- David Crossley --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
