Problem setting up wired networking

[Jerry Amundson]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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.

I propose that this 82 message thread covers those items.
Yet, the insiders are telling everyone else that all is right in nm world.

Whatever. For the record, I see the potential,  and it's good, but
thus far this thread is the voice of the masses falling of deaf ears,
and that's bad.

jerry

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