| ??? 04/17/12 16:42 Read: times |
#187186 - Examples? Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Richard Erlacher said:
People involved in open-source development have in very recent months freely admitted that their documentation lags quite a bit behind the released software. What people? Random, anonymous coders? Richard said:
This condition persists because the people doing the work are coders, and coders seldom enjoy documenting their work ... And your view on all the sites specializing in documentation? Or the long list of people participating in the documentation for different open-source projects - not as coders? Richard said:
in fact, nobody really enjoys it, do they? And people selecting this for a living? You have interviewed a significant group of such people? BTW, the reason for my lack of opinion about the current LINUX is because I'm unable to use it much, largely because of the lack of user documentation. I have asked before and ask again - what documentation are you missing? There are millions of pages of documentation available about the Linux kernels, the system tools, the graphical environment, lots and lots of applications, specific Linux distributions etc. So why not be more specific and show that you really have multiple, explicit examples of common (so they do relate to Linux) tools/applications/configurations/xxx where there aren't enough documentation available to make full use? Last example was of an unknown getty from lots and lots of years ago. By the way - I still haven't heard any view you have about LDP - Linux Documentation Project. Or what issues do you see with the documentation for all GNU tools? |
