On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 at 20:11 GMT, Richard Kimber penned: >> >> In many cases it will remain poor until people report what they found >> confusing about it - it's sometimes hard to document something you >> wrote in a way that somebody unfamiliar with it can understand. > > People do. Their confusion is evident in the posts to mailing lists > for each app. Often questions go unanswered. It may be, of course, > that the documentation people are silently perfecting their document > taking these questions into account, but in the meantime people are > confused. This is not true of all apps. Some are done very well > indeed and the developers interact with users very well. But it is > true of enough important areas (e.g. sound) that the original thesis > of this thread is true. >
A lot of times, people post very app-specific questions to, say, this debian-user list. I've done this myself. Perhaps no one on this list has the expertise required. If you have a question about mutt (that doesn't involve installation through apt), you're probably best off asking on the mutt mailing list. If you have a question about vim ... etc. I don't think it's fair to expect the debian maintainers to take responsibility for the documentation of all of the software available for debian, though they often do a remarkable job of it anyway. You wouldn't call microsoft with an autocad user question, would you? -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
