From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 3 11:47:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA28556 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 11:47:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA28549 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 11:47:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA10508; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 12:46:57 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd010473; Tue Nov 3 12:46:50 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA04230; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 12:46:42 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199811031946.MAA04230@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Documentation upgrade: where are the other humans? To: abial@nask.pl (Andrzej Bialecki) Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 19:46:42 +0000 (GMT) Cc: adrian@ubergeeks.com, jordan@Thinkbank.COM, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Andrzej Bialecki" at Nov 3, 98 10:53:35 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > You should read www.freebsd.org pages more carefully :-) For more info > > > follow the URL in my sig. > > > > No offense, but I found the documentation a bit weak. I even > > Well, you're right - the documentation needs massive upgrade. The existing > one was intended for people who already know quite a bit about FreeBSD. > But guess what... It's easier for me to code than to write stories... You know, I've often wondered why, given that there are people who will code for the fun of it, why none of the Free Software projects have crossed disciplines. You'd think that there would be English Majors and/or Technical Writers who would write documentation for the fun of it, and Marketing people who would do marketing for the fun of it, and Graphic Artists who would do commercial art for the fun of it... Are programmers the only people who enjoy what they intend to make their life's work? Maybe it's just that the majority of people are too busy sitting on their butts hacking code in cave-like computer labs to talk to people in other departments on campus? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message