On 7/28/05, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simon Chappell wrote: > > On 7/27/05, Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>The big problem with the Ant manual is the people who wrote it knew > >>too much. I can see various ways to make it more intelligible to the > >>first timer: > > > > > > Well, I actually like the Ant manual just the way it is. I find it > > very useful and I get pretty much what I need from it. So please don't > > force it to change. > > > > Now, that said, I am in favour of the creation of documentation more > > directly targetted at the first time or still quite new user. There > > are a number of introductions to ant, but something that would take > > it's time and that explained the concepts would be very useful. > > > > One thing that would be useful (and has been discussed on the dev list > recently), is a set of presentations that can be used to explain ant to > an audience. An introduction to ant would be one of the presentations, > effective junit another, ... etc. > > these could be both tutorials and things that anyone can use to explain > ant to others. > > contributions welcome. > > -openoffice only > -will be published under the asf licence (i.e. freely editable) > -no non-standard fonts, no matter how nice they are > -no more than 30 slides (an hour talk with questions) per topic > -detailed notes underneath the slides for presenters.
I think I just said something like that, before my brain burp caused me to not send it to the list. :-) Simon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
