On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 06:05:48PM -0500, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > On Sun, Apr 14, 2013, at 02:19 AM, Radhika Puthiyetath wrote: > > Any penalties for people who BLOCK documentation development ? > > Are there rewards for the folks who aren't blocking documentation > development? It's not like we can dock their volunteer pay. ;-) > > In all seriousness - I'm sure that it's frustrating to do the work and > wait on feedback that is slow in coming. But every project suffers from > more work than hands to do it. I don't think we should be looking to > penalize or shame anybody, we just need to find ways to help people do > their work more efficiently. > > We *could* revert features where the developer has not reviewed > documentation, but who does that help? Assuming a feature is complete > and isn't buggy, is it better for the user not to have a feature because > someone didn't have enough time to review docs? Probably not. > > In this case, I think Chip's proposal is the right one: docs folks > should do the docs to the best of their ability, commit, and raise the > new docs to the attention of the developer(s) specifically responsible > for the feature and the dev@ list in general. (And perhaps even the > user@ list.)
+1 to what Joe said. Do the best you can with the information you have, and harass developers until you get a response. -chip
