On Thursday 12 August 2004 07:55 pm, Pete Bessman wrote: > At Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:13:02 -0400, > > Dave Phillips wrote: > > Any comments ? Any takers ? Does anyone care ? > > Personally, I care very deeply. I think it's sad that UIs and Docs > tend to go out the window in favor of The Next Feature. My roadmap > for Specimen includes more than just piling on features (I've spent a > solid month designing the UI with Thorsten, and have just now begun > implementing it with PHAT). There's time for the UI, time for the > Docs, in addition to time for the engine. I have no problem sticking > with a sub-optimal implementation of a feature while I work on other > things. > > However, I am but one dude. Post 1.0, I can help out more generally, There's a lot of that going around > but at the moment I am focused on Specimen, and every minute I > contribute to another project is a minute I'm not contributing to my > own. I don't say this to be competitive, simply to reinforce the fact > that improving our abysmal doc situation isn't something you can > really expect most developers to help with; at least not so long as > their own app is still critically incomplete. Which harkens back to my point about human nature. Really, it's all process driven but the proof will be in the pudding if I can pull off what I want to do.
