I do agree with the fact that any program must have a good documentation. Without documentation, any work invested in developing any software is useless. If no one can understand in an easy way what you've done, why did you do it?
but the point, in my humble opinion is: Do I have to target every single person on earth when I'm going to write the documentation? BackupPC is not targeted to the basic home user, it's focused on centrally managed backups, and that's the typical installation for a company. It does not matter if it is a big one o a home business. You at lease must know what is this all about. It's like trying to sell an oscilloscope to a person who knows nothing about electronics. You cannot just pick up any book on electronics or electrical engineering, rewrite it and add it as the documentation for the oscilloscope. The company that sells the equipment just "understands" you already now the basics. If you are going to make backups and the transfer method you choose is ssh, you must know what ssh is and how it works, or you must grab some books on ssh and learn their requirements, configuration, and what are those magical things called public/private keys... It's like trying to figure out how much current is crossing the circuit but you don't know what's a resistor. Everything can be improved, but again, it would not be fair to blame the author (Craig) for the job hi's done. I can only be grateful, and if someone has something to argue, this is my advice: stop spending your time on writings complaints on the mailing list and make something to improve the documentation :P Anyway, I want to thank you all because this is what makes OSS as great as it is, everybody can speak and make things better,. Cesar. El 08/03/2011, a las 15:24, Timothy Murphy escribió: > Les Mikesell wrote: > >> The source is always the ultimate documentation. If you have that you can >> always find out what the program does and how. > > Not in a finite length of time. > > -- > Timothy Murphy > e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net > tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 > s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You > This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details > its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative > solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/