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[Thomas Schraitle <thomas.schraitle@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Donnerstag 07 Februar 2008, Stefan Hundhammer wrote:
> [...]
> Would that really make so many more users read them? And if
> so, when would they read them?

Just to add some thoughts about that:
From my experience we don't get that much bug reports for 
documentation (if at all) from the community. Well, either our 
documentation doesn't contain any errors (which I doubt) or it is of 
minor importance for most. ;)

Even in magazins when they test our distribution, they barely look 
into our documentation or even rate it. Some tests don't mention it 
at all. So it seems that either users don't know or don't care. :)

I remember a poll few years ago which also asked about our 
documentation. The answers showed that documentation was considered 
important but it was not important to have a printed manual. I don't 
know the exact numbers, but that's rougly the trend that we are 
facing now.


Tom

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