From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 16 10:25:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E47737B730 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:25:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA2DF; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:30:41 -0800 Message-ID: <3AB25AA3.CFD6AC22@acuson.com> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:25:39 -0800 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: documentation issues generally References: <010301c0ae3e$577a1d80$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > I disagree with this. Rather, the problem is that programmers usually > dislike > "wasting time" on writing documentation. All of them that I've worked with > are more than happy to have someone else do it. But, I've not sensed that > anyone I've worked with has "looked down" on what I'm doing. It's not that they consider it "wasting time", it's just that it's pure drudgery. I've written documentation for my own programs, and am currently helping with docs for KDE. It's not fun. It's boring. The developers should be the ones writing the docs, since they know the software the best, but they will probably be the ones least likely to enjoy writing it. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message