Problem setting up wired networking

[Jesse Keating]

On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 16:56 -0600, John Morris wrote:
> That really isn't fair.  It's a chicken and the egg problem in that the
> only way someone outside could write documentation is if someone inside
> gives them some rudimentary documentation first.  After all, by your
> reasoning anyone skilled enough to read the source should be adding
> features and fixing bugs so apparently that route to knowledge is out.
> 
> Outside help can clean up documentation, enhance documentation, take
> manpage level documentation and write detailed howtos for mortal users
> to follow.  If they have some help from the developers they can even
> update documentation to track changes.  Waiting for someone to appear
> and present documentation from scratch for a system that nobody outside
> the development team has knowledge of is asking for a miracle.

Outside people can create lists of things they'd like to see documented,
create questions for the developer to answer, prepare shells of
documentation that need details filled in, and talk with the developer
to get that information.  That would go a lot farther to having good
documentation than lamenting the fact that none exists and doing nothing
about it.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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