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Postings from November 2003
> A good idea to revitalize them and adapt them to our needs, would be to > start a Phalanx like project for documentation. I'm honored that you invoke Phalanx as an inspiration for this project. However, there's one key part of Phalanx that you missed: I started it myself. It wasn't a committee. It wasn't me coming to p5p and saying "Hey, guys, let's start a project!" I never posted to p5p about it until after I'd started it. I just did it. > Namely, we: > 1. Collect user stories on what they did not understand in the > documentation. > 2. Assign volunteers to remedy these issues. > 3. Assign volunteers to go over sections of the man pages and try to > paraphrase them to make them clear enough. > 4. Collectively decide where the man pages could use some > re-organization, > and re-organize them. I think this is a great plan, except for one word. Change "we" to "I". Stop arguing about it and DO IT. If it's a worthwhile project, people will come on board and make things happen. If it's not, then they won't. It's the way open source works. I also suggest that you'll get better results without coming out with both barrels saying "The docs suck and need to be replaced." And I ask that the rest of p5p not bother squabbling about this. Until there's some actual content from Shlomi's project, there's nothin' to really discuss. xoa -- Andy Lester andy@petdance.com, AIM:petdance http://petdance.com/ http://use.perl.org/~petdance/Thread Previous | Thread Next