Well said indeed. I guess that's the reason I've never complained about Cocoon documentation; I don't feel I have the right to ;-)
> -----Original Message----- > From: David Crossley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 12:13 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Giving up! Cocoon too big, slow and confusing > > > Everyone stop, take a breathe, get a cup of coffee > and go read "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" > http://tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/ > or similar writings about how Open Source Software operates. > It seems that many people here are missing the point. > > It amazes me that people have the time to compose email > to the mailing list to tell us that they are too busy, and > then have the hide to tell us that documentation is poor. > > If each of us add one FAQ to the document collection, > then the lack will be addressed very quickly. That is OSS. > If you see an issue, the onus is on you to help remedy that. > Everyone benefits from the work of each one. > > There is no such separate thing as "they, the developers". > Rather it is "we the community". Anyone who contributes > a patch (code or doc) is instantly transformed from being > a "user" into a "developer". > > Users use, contributers build projects. > > Thanks for raising this topic. I do sympathise with you > about the complexities and inadequacies. We have all been > though that and still do. None of us know all of Cocoon > capabilities and would all benefit from doc contributions. > Please help. > --David > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Please check that your question has not already been answered in the > FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
