>> It's tough to put yourself in the shoes of a novice, so it's tough to write documentation that would be helpful for new users. It's extremely helpful if new users submit documentation patches as they figure things out. It's generally unnecessary to write large tomes. Often all that's needed is a few sentences or an example or two. <<
Yes, well, regardless of your beef with the person who complained about documentation, I respectfully submit that it is not so easy to help out with documentation. I'm a professional writer and author with a keen interest in open source, but the moment you look to contribute or try to help with the documentation you are asked to learn LaTex or DocBook, which, I'm sorry, I am not going to do. Authors and writers are usually drawn to open source software by their love of plain text. Even veteran Linux users have a lot of trouble with LaTex, so the writers, who perhaps would be willing to help with writing in exchange for help with programming, are unable to do so without learning yet another arcane and foreign mark-up language, which frankly won't be useful in any other writing endeavor. How about a compromise, like having documents submitted in html or some other system that is more cross platform than LaTex? bs -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
