Dennis & Keith, I think one of the problems in the world now is that there is too much documentation. Fundamentally, why should software need documenting? We don't document doors or refrigerators, stairs or elevators.
I blame it all on Jimmy Carter and the Nobel folks: he got the Israelis and the Palestinians together and he bored them into submission, and then the Swedes gave him a Nobel for it. Ever since that time people have been nattering on and on and on, hoping that they'll get a Nobel, too. If a piece of software can't document itself on the first screen up, then the hell with it. -dlj. P.S. A note for the folks at Adobe -- and for that matter everybody else in document world: the aspect ratio of a computer screen is 4x5 sideways. It is not eight-and-a-half by eleven vertical. You can stop pretending you're typing on a piece of paper now. -d. On 18 January 2016 at 16:18, Dennis E. Hamilton <orc...@apache.org> wrote: > [bcc: dev@] > > Hi Keith, > > I have belatedly noticed your efforts to reboot the documentation effort, > first in April and again in December, 2015. > > I commend you on this. > > While people raise their hands, we don't seem to achieve traction. > > I would like to know from those who did not persevere, > > What got in the way? > > Is it all a matter of life intervening? > > Are there technical and communication matters that can be addressed to > remove any barriers that were encountered? > > Is there missing information? > > - Dennis > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: doc-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: doc-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
