Another benefit to having a tighter author/editor
connection is that the
documents can be honed to nearly perfect accuracy
for Fedora. TLDP are
working in a more generic realm; it's difficult for
them to ensure total
technical accuracy, and documents need to be written
to cover multiple
distros. Their documents are generally very useful,
but not often
specifically useful to each person's unique case.
I am not sure this will remain true over time. Fedora
is a fast moving distro and things change over time.
what might be true in fc1 might be entirely irrelevant
to fc5 or something like that. how are we planning to
deal with this. would these documents be made version
specific?
New experiment in putting my lengthy asides ...
well, aside:
[1] Yes, I know we'll have abandoned documents;
we'll deal with that,
that's inevitable.
Yes. you probably need to add some kind of process to
deal with unmaintained docs.
[2] For those who don't know this one, writers in
the earlier part of
the twentieth century would sometimes throw their
completed manuscript
into the open transom over a locked door, hoping
that when a
publisher/editor (literally) stumbled over it the
next morning, it might
be a step closer to being published. The difference
between a
publishing house that will print anything that comes
in "over the
transom" and one that only prints work properly
submitted and approved
is what I am alluding to in this metaphor.
--
very interesting but you should probably choose
metaphors that make sense without a lengthy
explanation. :-)
regards
Rahul Sundaram
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