On 3/7/06, Brian K. Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Agreed. However, the barrier to entry is actually quite high in this
> regard from personal experience on open source projects that place
> documentation below everything else. Contributions only go so far when
> made by a non-committer.

Yep, this is what I meant by this bit below, and also why I
highlighted that there are other ways to contribute.

> > Now, we do know there are missing pieces of documentation, and are
> > correcting that over time. It's also my personal vendatta to write
> > docs for new functionality at least going forward, and even if they
> > are brief so that people can expand on them easily.

I don't know why I called it a vendetta, its more of an ambition :)

> No offense intended here. I've seen the "give us documentation" and the
> "we know - we're working on it" threads. My hat's off to all the work
> that's been done.

None taken, it was a general comment.

> *sigh*  yeah...  [been trying that approach - not w/ maven (yet) - and
> met with limited success because of "that's documentation. we're here to
> work on code" responses (or complete lack of response entirely) - hence
> my ire over "have users just look at the code" opinions.]

Nah, I think that's a last resort. Because then we'd need to document
the code :)

> This is possibly the best thing I've ever heard said about a wiki.
> Taking knowledge from a wiki into documentation is great. Using a wiki
> AS documentation is where my issue arises.

:)

- Brett

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