On 16-Mar-06, at 4:53 AM, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
Problem: I can't make head or tail of the new Launchpad system.
Proposal:
1) Every page on Launchpad could have a link [help] to a unique
wiki. E.g.
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/+package
could have a link called help to
https://wiki.launchpad.net/malone/bugs/+package
2) Put a default stub up, for each page, asking for user contributions
to the Wiki.
3) Hope that mystical gnomes create good contextual documentation
for each
page.
I would have proposed this on launchpad, but I can't find the "Add
proposal/specification/whatever" button. ;)
This is an interesting idea, but I think we can do even better.
In my experience, documentation grown in a wiki usually ends up
messy, incomplete, and quickly out-of-date.
Better, IMHO, is to make the UI easy enough to use so that
documentation is unneeded for simple things. For more complex tasks,
I favour developer-grown documentation and, perhaps, small textual
hints right on the page.
If you're finding simple things difficult in Malone, for example, I
more than welcome your feedback, to help us learn more about how you
use and think about the system:
https://launchpad.net/products/malone/+filebug
Cheers,
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