Hi Patrick, On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Patrick Mast<devlist.harb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, >> >> Five year ago i have nominated Hannes Ziegler best makers of software >> documentation regarding xbase and i am convinced about this >> I have a dream having good documentation in harbour, and Our partner >> will be http://www.knowlexbase.com/en/services/documentation/index.html >> and we can/must coordinate Our effort with xharbour.com .I have write >> to Hannes Ziegler that is certainly interested > > Hannes Ziegler is the one who wrote xHDN's documentation > ( http://www.xHarbour.com/xHDN ) for xHarbour.com. So, yes, you are correct, > he is a very good technical writer! Actually one of the best in the field! > Now, I was thinking.. why reinvent the wheel? > xHDN's documentation is written in a simple TXT format that everyone can > read and understand. The TXT files can be converted to CHM, HTML and even > PDF. If the Harbour community compensate us for just 80% of what we actually > paid Hannes Ziegler we'll be happy to change the license of xHDN's > documentation to any license you guys prefer. This gives the Harbour > community a quick start up. This also brings Harbour and xHarbour efforts > together in one great documentation effort. > What do you guys think about this idea?
I was happy to see you jumping to the thread, but when I saw the 80% figure and that it should be paid to xhb project, I got a little bit surprised. I would think it would be much more fair for the authors and for our users to compensate *Hannes* with this or the original amount (which is only extra 20%) for a documentation specifically crafted for Harbour. In case we'd be using this doc as a base, we'd most probably need his help to make corrections and additions anyway. For solely passing the doc rights to Harbour community this figure is way too high. So my personal opinion is that this construct in this way is nothing more than getting (an IMO non-fair share amount of) money by xhb from Harbour developers / users. Moreover we'd be paying for the "middleman", not the author, which means this money would not be spend on any actual documentation writing, just (almost fully) compensate for a business investment. Probably a zero amount to share rights would be a generous amount to offer for the whole xhb/Harbour community then sharing extra expenses to get the documentation updated to the development of latest years. This way it could be also guaranteed that the docs would be usable for both products, all differences documented properly. My 2 cents. Brgds, Viktor _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
