On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Roland McGrath wrote: >> so the dev community is interested primarily in the library work, and >> the user community is often the dev community. Fine, fine. > > In terms of focus and resource allocation, yes. It's not that we aren't > motivated about tool replacement work too, but we just can't see where the > resource priority for that might come from and we know it's not realistic > to make many claims about it any time soon. > >> I don't think I'm the right person to write documentation on the library. > > Sure. That's not to say you might not be a great person to help figure out > what good plans for documenting library APIs would be. > >> OTOH, I'm happy to document anything in /bin or /usr/bin. Interest >> sounded tepid, but I'll try and start somewhere... > > We are hotly interested and warmly appreciative of the contributions! ;-) > I just wanted to be clear on what a complete lack of plan for documentation > we have as a project. We just have not put any time or thought into it, > and can't promise to get real coherent real fast even to direct and manage > new contributors' efforts on documentation. > > That's why I just said everything I know about the documentation question. > I meant to imply that is *all* I know, and whatever else I didn't say I > haven't thought about yet. (Consider it the brief flurry of quick > yammering following the blank stare and batting of eyes. ;-) > > We in the project have never even discussed any subjects like what the > useful or desireable source formats are for writing our documentation.
heh. OK, I understand better. I'll try to get together a manual page per week on the user-oriented tools, and see where that goes... I'm not a big fan of over-planning. ;) -Ah > > > Thanks, > Roland > -- Andrew Hecox Technical Account Manager, Red Hat, Inc office: 919 754 4157, cell: 919 758 9234 _______________________________________________ elfutils-devel mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/elfutils-devel
