Hi
I think that this a circular problem. Fedora and
GNOME developers have
seen the benefits of usability, so they push for
better usability
themselves. I don't think that documentation is
seen as a critical
part of developing useful software.
the point is thou that documentation is critical
factor for many people. developers even if they dont
write all the docs themselves should consider it
important enough to cc the list and announce the
important changes that should be documented
gnome usability had a few important motivated
developers concerned with it and moving forward
inspite of the difficulties. we need a bunch of such
people for the documentation team too. The document
authors should not work in isolation. in many cases
the work being documented is involved enough that its
simply not possible to do so. When we have this
installation document at 0.9, we can make some noise
about this in the development list.
Community
documentation work is too
fragmented to have a strong voice in development,
and cannot point to
any spectacular success in the same way that
usability work has
revolutionised GNOME.
thats because the distributions themselves are
fragmented to create very integrated documents.. thats
out of scope to be discussing here thou
my short version: get a 0.9 release out and make some
noise about this for feedback in the users list and
getting developers involved in the devel list
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Regards
Rahul Sundaram
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