On 07/12/2013 07:10 AM, Bernhard Bitsch wrote:
> 
>> On your note about that development has to be involved in this as well:
>> Agreed and I already talked to Arne and Stevee how we can do that in the
>> least time consuming way, because we also don't have much time and loads
>> of things to work on.
> Sorry, documentation is not an addon, but a essential part of development.
> 
>> Writing articles in more than one language is an absolute no-go.
> Agreed. ;)
> 
>> We will leave it at English and write down the most important things one needs
>> to know about a certain add-on or what ever.
> Most developpers are native german speakers. Why not using german?

I vote for English, and not because I am a native speaker, but for the
assumption that more people use it as a second language than German. I
speak English and (very poor) Spanish. I have Russian, Filipino, German
and Spanish native speakers I correspond with regularly because they
learned English in school.

I can't speak for other countries, but in the US, most of the
multilingual learn Spanish, French, German, Russian, Mandarin and
Japanese. However, I believe most of the multilingual in other countries
learn English as their second language, then go on to other languages
after that. I am speaking from my own experience, however, so I may be
wrong on this.

>  
>> I also think that developers are not the best people to write end-user
>> documentation. It is getting to complex and not suitable for beginners
>> any way.
> Also agreed. But without a basic documentation a non-developper can't write a end user doc.
> The devs mainly know about the internals. A non-dev can only study the behaviour or ask the devs.
> 
> - Bernhard
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