Yep! So even if you cannot program this will help! Actually, I think we sometimes need more documentors rather than programmers :-). Matt On Wednesday 28 February 2001 06:40 pm, S.Toms wrote:
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Matthew wrote:
m> The documentation on a lot of stuff really sucks...Have you totally fixed m> your problem now? I only discovered I could not get mine to work becuase I m> had to set an encrypt password to the file. m> m> Its not the fault the of Linux, just I know the documentation could be a m> little better. Also, with Samba they have to deal with MS who really are m> trying to stop the Samba team from succeeding too much as Linux can replace m> an NT server... m>
In alot of cases, the developers get so busy wrting the program they forget to do the documentation, or neglect to mention certain things because they tend tobe more familiar with the program itself. So what they tend to think is common knowledge for a given command or program is a mystery to others who havn't messed with it at all. In these cases, I like to write my own documentation, or modify the existing and forward it onto the developers for inclusing in the next release of whatever. I would recommend this to everyone who thinks the documentation leaves alot to be desired, because without our help the documentation may not change in the next release because the developers are too busy making the programs better/faster/prettier/etc.. :)