From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "R. W. Rodolico" To: documentation@lists.ipfire.org Subject: Re: Aw: Re: IPFire Wiki Workflow Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 12:58:18 -0500 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============3584854443604381595==" List-Id: --===============3584854443604381595== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 07/12/2013 07:10 AM, Bernhard Bitsch wrote: >=20 >> 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. >=20 >> Writing articles in more than one language is an absolute no-go. > Agreed. ;) >=20 >> We will leave it at English and write down the most important things one n= eeds >> 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. > =20 >> 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 beha= viour or ask the devs. >=20 > - Bernhard > _______________________________________________ > Documentation mailing list > Documentation(a)lists.ipfire.org > http://lists.ipfire.org/mailman/listinfo/documentation >=20 --=20 R. W. "Rod" Rodolico Daily Data, Inc. POB 140465 Dallas TX 75214-0465 http://www.dailydata.net 214.827.2170 --===============3584854443604381595== Content-Type: text/x-vcard Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="rodo.vcf" MIME-Version: 1.0 YmVnaW46dmNhcmQKZm46Ui4gVy4gUm9kb2xpY28KbjpSb2RvbGljbztSLiBXLgpvcmc6RGFpbHkg RGF0YSwgSW5jLgphZHI6OztQT0IgMTQwNDY1O0RhbGxhcztUWDs3NTIxNC0wNDY1O1VTCmVtYWls O2ludGVybmV0OnJvZG9AZGFpbHlkYXRhLm5ldAp0aXRsZTpQcmVzaWRlbnQKdGVsO3dvcms6MjE0 LjgyNy4yMTcwCnVybDpodHRwOi8vd3d3LmRhaWx5ZGF0YS5uZXQKdmVyc2lvbjoyLjEKZW5kOnZj YXJkCgo= --===============3584854443604381595==--