From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 19 12:44:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from moutvdom01.kundenserver.de (moutvdom01.kundenserver.de [195.20.224.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26E3237B726 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 12:44:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@pukruppa.de) Received: from [195.20.224.204] (helo=mrvdom00.schlund.de) by moutvdom01.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 14f6Vs-0004WL-00; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 21:44:24 +0100 Received: from pd950c788.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.80.199.136]) by mrvdom00.schlund.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 14f6Vr-0008GE-00; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 21:44:23 +0100 Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 21:36:43 +0000 (GMT) From: "Kruppa, Peter Ulrich" X-X-Sender: To: Jim Mock Cc: Mike Meyer , David Johnson , Subject: Re: documentation issues generally In-Reply-To: <20010319153631.D3566@guinness.osdn.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Jim Mock wrote: > Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 15:36:32 -0500 > From: Jim Mock > To: Mike Meyer > Cc: David Johnson , questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: documentation issues generally > > On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 at 14:26:36 -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > David Johnson types: > > > Mike Meyer wrote: > > > > This is a base canard. Just because someone is most familiar with > > > > a bag of bits does *not* mean they are the ones who should be > > > > explaining it to others, or the ones who are best able to do so. > > > > Otherwise, you'd argue that Einstein should have taught froshling > > > > physics. > > > > > > Let me rephrase slightly. The developer should be the one > > > *responsible* for the documentation. He might not be the one > > > actually writing it, but if he isn't he should be tapping someone to > > > do the work. > > > > Not a bad idea - except it clashes with *every* project I've ever > > worked on that actually had a documentation team, even if the team was > > only one person. > > > > The project manager is responsible for the documentation. The > > documentation group is responsible for writing it, and usually > > responsible for gathering the information, as well. Whether it comes > > from the engineers varied from group to group. > > > > Of course, I don't think FreeBSD *has* a project manager. > > Nik Clayton is the FreeBSD Documentation Project Manager. If you feel like writing a documentation you should do it. I never thought there is too much of it. Uli. -- ################################################### # # # www.pukruppa.de www.2000d.de # # # ################################################### To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message