On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 08:40:58PM -0700, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Tuesday 03 January 2006 19:48, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > This sounds like it would be a very, very big writing effort, perhaps > > not to the scale of Wikipedia, but at least of the scope of the Linux > > documentation project, and perhaps larger. So... what would keep these > > writers motivated to do this (seemingly overwhelming amount of) writing? > > overwhelming and ultimately boring, not to mention not a great use of our > developer resources[1] if we had alternate sources of manpower to tap. > > a monetary investment and proper stewardship could do wonders here. it may > even be the difference between "that's a great concept" and "we've got an > implementation of that great concept".
Hmm, do we have a feasible source for the monetary investment for this? I'm guessing that something on the order of several million would be required? Barring that, is there any feasible bottom-up way of achieving it? I've been impressed with the documentation efforts around specific distros such as gentoo. > [1] i assume, given the limited number of technical writers with knowledge of > this domain currently in the community, that the bulk of the effort would > inevitably fall upon the shoulders of developers even as it tends to now. I think you're probably right. Bryce
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