Hi Marielle,
I visited your site, and bookmarked it. I am certainly sympathetic to
your goals and philosophical position. Rev users generally seem
sympathetic to the manufacturer -- wish it well, want it to succeed.
Me too.
My initial reaction -- what's there is admirable. The documentation
you have written is somewhat clearer and less terse than Rev's native
documentation, with more examples. Of course the number of items and
issues documented is relatively small. I didn't spend a lot of time
exploring -- I might have overlooked something. I'm sorry you're
disappointed with the overall reaction so far.
Beyond that, I wonder if initial visitors will be daunted by the task
of re-writing Rev's native documentation and moving it to your wiki,
while simultaneously improving and supplementing the native
documentation. If Rev's native documentation can't be moved wholesale
to a wiki, with its hyperlinks, "see also" links, and so on, intact,
for the sake of wiki-type improving and supplementing, I fear too
many potential wiki users will be too daunted, and it just won't
catch on.
I hope I'm wrong, though.
Tim
Marielle wrote:
Again we are back to the same problem. Revolution Company has
limited resources. Users on this list seems to be very resourceful.
Why always direct the complaints against revolution? Why not start
thinking about what *WE* users can do to improve this. Because we
paid for a license means we shouldn't do the service? What matters
most for you, the fact you paid for your license or the quality of
the service you could get if each one of us gave a hand, as a
function of his time, dedication, and level of skill?
This page:
http://revolution.lexicall.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=RevolutionSnippetTips
has been accessed 215 times. Numbers of persons who have taken the
time to update it other than me (nothing more than cut and paste
from a post on the list, 2 minutes of your time a week maximum): 0
(zero).
I would have more resources at my fingertips if more of *you users
of this list ranting against the lack of good docs* decided to
invest a bit more of *your* time in the creation of a good
documentation.
The documentation is really excellent... comparing well if not
better than other documentation systems I have been using (Visual
Basic or Visual Basic for Applications, for instance). With other
languages, you can often find a book that make up for unclear
documentation, but this comes with an extra price tag. To improve
this documentation, there are two models: Extensive Collaboration
and a free service... Everybody trying to get more than he gives,
keeping everything he has developed for him/herself and a paying
service. Choose the model you want for the years to come in this
community... but if you choose the second, please spare me the rants
against the doc. Dreamcard is less than $100 and Macromedia Studio 8
costs $400. What you get for less than $100 is *extraordinary*.
Marielle
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