Re: Linux is not for consumers!
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 08:21:20PM -0600, Terry Hancock wrote:
>
> The people who know a program best are the ones who work
> on its internals. No one else can write documentation like the
> guy who built the thing in the first place. Failing that, you can
> have someone step in and write it, yes. But it'll never be as
> accurate as you'd like, nor as up-to-date.
This is something of a fallacy. In some cases the guy that wrote it is
the _last_ guy you want documenting it. They may take certain
items/features for granted because they have become second nature to
them. A good compromise is a collaborative effort where a user (or
someone else) of the software/product creates the documentation using
the original author as a resource. This way you get an outside point of
view.
--
Jamin W. Collins
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. --Aldous Huxley,
"Proper Studies", 1927
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