> Another benefit to having a tighter author/editor > connection is that the > documents can be honed to nearly perfect accuracy > for Fedora. TLDP are > working in a more generic realm; it's difficult for > them to ensure total > technical accuracy, and documents need to be written > to cover multiple > distros. Their documents are generally very useful, > but not often > specifically useful to each person's unique case. I am not sure this will remain true over time. Fedora is a fast moving distro and things change over time. what might be true in fc1 might be entirely irrelevant to fc5 or something like that. how are we planning to deal with this. would these documents be made version specific? > > New experiment in putting my lengthy asides ... > well, aside: > > [1] Yes, I know we'll have abandoned documents; > we'll deal with that, > that's inevitable. Yes. you probably need to add some kind of process to deal with unmaintained docs. > [2] For those who don't know this one, writers in > the earlier part of > the twentieth century would sometimes throw their > completed manuscript > into the open transom over a locked door, hoping > that when a > publisher/editor (literally) stumbled over it the > next morning, it might > be a step closer to being published. The difference > between a > publishing house that will print anything that comes > in "over the > transom" and one that only prints work properly > submitted and approved > is what I am alluding to in this metaphor. > > -- very interesting but you should probably choose metaphors that make sense without a lengthy explanation. :-) regards Rahul Sundaram _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. http://promotions.yahoo.com/goldrush
