A moment about software quality...

2000-12-06 Thread Dan Sugalski
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/12/06/bad_computers/index.html And no, open source software is *not* immune. Dan --"it's like this"--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PRO

Re: Tech documentation (Re: Perl Apprenticeship Program)

2000-12-06 Thread Nathan Wiger
Kirrily Skud Robert wrote: > > Open Source Writers Group (http://oswg.org/) is a good starting point. > I'm subscribed to their mailing list. This is really cool. Should we consider posting an announcement to this website for potential docs people? Or is it still premature to do something like

Re: Tech documentation (Re: Perl Apprenticeship Program)

2000-12-06 Thread David Grove
> >Open Source Writers Group (http://oswg.org/) is a good starting point. > >I'm subscribed to their mailing list. I can think of a couple of other > >good places to try, too, but they're a bit politically incorrect to > >mention in this context :-/ > > Who on earth would be considered poli

What's a PDD for the rest of us?

2000-12-06 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
In http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-internals@perl.org/msg01766.html, Dan outlined rev 2 of the RFC process, PDD (Perl Design Docs). Everything seems rather specific to internals - will there be a separate mechanism in place for all-things non-internal, say, for instance, the format for a non-in

Re: What's a PDD for the rest of us?

2000-12-06 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 02:39 PM 12/6/00 -0500, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: >In http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-internals@perl.org/msg01766.html, >Dan outlined rev 2 of the RFC process, PDD (Perl Design Docs). > >Everything seems rather specific to internals - will there be a separate >mechanism in place for all-things

Re: What's a PDD for the rest of us?

2000-12-06 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Wed, 06 Dec 2000, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Well, until Larry releases the spec, just about everything else is frozen, > though we can certainly expand the PDD stuff to include the standard > library, documentation, and QA stuff. (It seems a tad premature to be > proposing language changes when

Re: What's a PDD for the rest of us?

2000-12-06 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 03:08 PM 12/6/00 -0500, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: >On Wed, 06 Dec 2000, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > Well, until Larry releases the spec, just about everything else is frozen, > > though we can certainly expand the PDD stuff to include the standard > > library, documentation, and QA stuff. (It seems a

Re: Perl Apprenticeship Program

2000-12-06 Thread Graham Barr
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 10:00:50PM +, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: > B. The "master" / "apprentice" relationship is just that - it depends >how the people in question relate. As a potential "master" I am all >too aware that I am not skilled in teaching - usually because I don't >know w

Re: Tech documentation (Re: Perl Apprenticeship Program)

2000-12-06 Thread David Grove
Kirrily Skud Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 11:28:31AM -0800, Nathan Wiger wrote: > > > > Anyways, that's just one suggestion. Do I have any idea where to find > > these mythical people? No, unfortunately. Perhaps some feelers on > > newsgroups might be a good p

Re: Perl Apprenticeship Program

2000-12-06 Thread Dave Storrs
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Steve Fink wrote: > David Grove wrote: > > > Also, as far as documentation goes, I think it _should_ be written by > > apprentices, so that non-masters can understand it too. That's always been > > Except it's a particular duty that nobody really likes to perform. Which