newbies documentation (was: Cocoon is too complex for consumption?)

2003-01-27 Thread SAXESS - Hussayn Dabbous
Hy; as a newbie (of three months age ;) ) i'd like to contribute my thoughts to the documentation area: 1.) From my now 20 years experience in computer art i learned that the newbies can tell much more about the features of a program, than the developers can. Why? because the newbie

Re: newbies documentation (was: Cocoon is too complex for consumption?)

2003-01-27 Thread Steven Noels
SAXESS - Hussayn Dabbous wrote: My *personal* conclusions on this: 1.) Instead of shouting against the developers i started writing down my experiences within my company wiki. I did this because i wanted a clear separation from all the masters of the art articles turning up in the

Re: newbies documentation (was: Cocoon is too complex for consumption?)

2003-01-27 Thread SAXESS - Hussayn Dabbous
hy, Derek; what you say makes perfect sense ;-) only one suggestion for the first two pages: 1.) HOWTO setup cocoon in 15 minutes ;-) should be easy by condensing the other thread 2.) HOWTO setup your intranet with XML in 1 day it took me two weeks to figure it out, but i could give away 2

Re: newbies documentation (was: Cocoon is too complex for consumption?)

2003-01-27 Thread SAXESS - Hussayn Dabbous
hy, steven; you are right: no good idea to create another documentation source. i remember, i also complained about that when i started with cocoon: documentation sites all around and uncoordinated. The point is uncoordinated here: I propose to coordinate the newbies site with the existing

Re: newbies documentation (was: Cocoon is too complex for consumption?)

2003-01-27 Thread Steven Noels
SAXESS - Hussayn Dabbous wrote: The major point is to remember, that the newbies wiki is a part of the cocoon wiki, independent of the underlaying technology, thus coordinating the content, not the technology. Sure. My bias is that people should not go for hunting information, and that a lot,