[Harbour] Re: Documentation storm on user's list

2010-06-11 Thread Adam Lubszczyk
pete_westg wrote: > > στις 27/05/2010 13:02, O/H Viktor Szakáts έγραψε: > By "documentation friendly code" i mean two simple and very well known > things. > a. Short introductory description on top of source code (in place of > this long and more or less useless copyright reminding replica ) >

[Harbour] Re: Documentation storm on user's list

2010-06-11 Thread pete_westg
στις 29/05/2010 10:40, O/H Przemysław Czerpak έγραψε: > This is my last massage in this thread. I strongly suggest to invest > resources necessary to create such long messages about "how to create > harbour documentation" in creating some real documentation. It will > be really productive. > > be

Re: [Harbour] Re: Documentation storm on user's list

2010-05-31 Thread smu johnson
This reads like one of your nice commit logs! On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Viktor Szakáts wrote: > > [ After waiting some days for the original thread on user's > list taking any sort of constructive direction, I had made the > decision to ban the thread starter, on the grounds that he went >

Re: [Harbour] Re: Documentation storm on user's list

2010-05-31 Thread Massimo Belgrano
2010/5/31 Viktor Szakáts : > > Pls note that _anyone_ is free to create a fund and deal with the > sponsoration of doc writing, or any other matter whatsoever. Harbour > admins/core developers aren't needed for this. In italy if i receive money from internet (to pay doc writing for example) i must

Re: [Harbour] Re: Documentation storm on user's list

2010-05-31 Thread Viktor Szakáts
Hi All, >> ..I'd prefer to we follow a "Harbour-Fund" financing model. That is, >> we start making donations to a common-treasure and let project >> leaders decide and make "hiring" agreements for manual creation, or >> whatever would help project's improvement. >> But, of course, let's hear other

Re: [Harbour] Re: Documentation storm on user's list

2010-05-29 Thread Antonio Maniero
http://tech.blog.aknin.name/2010/05/29/mailing-list-debates-considered-harmful/ Most important thing is the title. Have fun! :-) []'s Maniero ___ Harbour mailing list (attachment size limit: 40KB) Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project

Re: [Harbour] Re: Documentation storm on user's list

2010-05-29 Thread Massimo Belgrano
I tryed send original mail to maling http://docs.google.com/View?id=dhmtv9fs_318djq6xdn5 Please revise me 2010/5/29 Przemysław Czerpak > On Sat, 29 May 2010, pete_westg wrote: > > Hi, > > > ..I'd prefer to we follow a "Harbour-Fund" financing model. That is, > > we start making donations to a c

Re: [Harbour] Re: Documentation storm on user's list

2010-05-29 Thread Przemysław Czerpak
On Sat, 29 May 2010, pete_westg wrote: Hi, > ..I'd prefer to we follow a "Harbour-Fund" financing model. That is, > we start making donations to a common-treasure and let project > leaders decide and make "hiring" agreements for manual creation, or > whatever would help project's improvement. > B

Re: [Harbour] Re: Documentation storm on user's list

2010-05-29 Thread Massimo Belgrano
2010/5/29 pete_westg > στις 29/05/2010 00:42, O/H Pritpal Bedi έγραψε: > >> Ok, I commit to write documentation, how much you will pay ? >> > > Certainly not less than the current market price[*] for similar products. > (and of course, I'd prefer it to be an under-official-leadership > initiativ

[Harbour] Re: Documentation storm on user's list

2010-05-28 Thread pete_westg
στις 29/05/2010 00:42, O/H Pritpal Bedi έγραψε: Ok, I commit to write documentation, how much you will pay ? Certainly not less than the current market price[*] for similar products. (and of course, I'd prefer it to be an under-official-leadership initiative.) Users of Harbour can pledg

[Harbour] Re: Documentation storm on user's list

2010-05-28 Thread Pritpal Bedi
pete_westg wrote: > > (I don't know if this has been proposed before but) why don't you create > some kind of Harbour Fund? It could be used to accept donations, > contributions and, why not, for hired services (be it on-line help or > code-writing or support etc.) > Ok, I commit to write d

[Harbour] Re: Documentation storm on user's list

2010-05-28 Thread pete_westg
στις 28/05/2010 15:23, O/H Viktor Szakáts έγραψε: Pls remember that even such _quite well documented_, _fully open_ and long time known systems as Linux, have several companies _earning_ large sums of money by supporting them (f.e. Red Hat), (I don't know if this has been proposed before but)

Re: [Harbour] Re: Documentation storm on user's list

2010-05-28 Thread Viktor Szakáts
> To put it an other way, the crucial subject today, is not any more the open > source code. It is (and always was) the open knowledge. Nobody ever promised that knowledge or mastery will automatically fly into the users' brains, just by having access to the information, be it open source, blu

[Harbour] Re: Documentation storm on user's list

2010-05-28 Thread pete_westg
στις 27/05/2010 23:33, O/H smu johnson έγραψε: Some thoughts, On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:18 PM, pete_westg mailto:pete_we...@yahoo.gr>> wrote: are you sure you have understood my words? I 'm afraid you don't! What I am not sure for, is the reason for this misunderstanding. Perhaps,

RE: [Harbour] Re: Documentation storm on user's list

2010-05-28 Thread Horodyski Marek (PZUZ)
> -Original Message- > From: pete_westg [mailto:pete_we...@yahoo.gr] > Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 9:19 PM > To: harbour@harbour-project.org > Subject: [Harbour] Re: Documentation storm on user's list [...] > When I am saying documentation is more valuable than c

Re: [Harbour] Re: Documentation storm on user's list

2010-05-27 Thread smu johnson
Some thoughts, On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:18 PM, pete_westg wrote: > are you sure you have understood my words? I 'm afraid you don't! > What I am not sure for, is the reason for this misunderstanding. Perhaps, > is it due to my bad English or what? > - Stating that Harbour's lack of documenti

Re: [Harbour] Re: Documentation storm on user's list

2010-05-27 Thread Viktor Szakáts
> [I finally managed to discover that my post in users-forum had been replied > here. so, here it is my humble yet belated answer] > > are you sure you have understood my words? I 'm afraid you don't! > What I am not sure for, is the reason for this misunderstanding. Perhaps, is > it due to my b

[Harbour] Re: Documentation storm on user's list

2010-05-27 Thread pete_westg
στις 27/05/2010 13:02, O/H Viktor Szakáts έγραψε: To Pete, [ Sorry to reply here, but I'm readonly user of users-list. ] Strange and insulting thoughts towards anyone who have dedicated huge amount (many years) of (maybe even full time) to take this project where it is now. Maybe you could ela

Re: [Harbour] Re: Documentation storm on user's list

2010-05-27 Thread Viktor Szakáts
> El 27/05/2010 11:16, Horodyski Marek (PZUZ) escribió: > >> >> Viktor, >> ... Harbour is beautiful, beautiful, and once again fast :) >> >> Best regards, >> Marek Horodyski >> > > Amen Well, what stays true from this whole conversation is we are truly missing documentation. It's also

[Harbour] Re: Documentation storm on user's list

2010-05-27 Thread Pritpal Bedi
Angel Pais wrote: > > Some hummor (really?) to ease the day ;) > > http://www.kevinwilliampang.com/2008/08/28/top-10-things-that-annoy-programmers/ > Enjoyed. Really refreshing and seemed expressing me. - enjoy hbIDEing... Pritpal Bedi http://hbide.vouch.info/ -- View t

[Harbour] Re: Documentation storm on user's list

2010-05-27 Thread Angel Pais
El 27/05/2010 11:16, Horodyski Marek (PZUZ) escribió: Viktor, ... Harbour is beautiful, beautiful, and once again fast :) Best regards, Marek Horodyski Amen Some hummor (really?) to ease the day ;) http://www.kevinwilliampang.com/2008/08/28/top-10-things-that-annoy-programmers/ Enj