From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 19 10:32:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A98ED37B718 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 10:32:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA19EE; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 10:37:09 -0800 Message-ID: <3AB650A1.F85EB64D@acuson.com> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 10:32:01 -0800 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Meyer Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: documentation issues generally References: <15026.58943.554108.688513@guru.mired.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Meyer wrote: > This is a base canard. Just because someone is most familiar with a > bag of bits does *not* mean they are the ones who should be explaining > it to others, or the ones who are best able to do so. Otherwise, you'd > argue that Einstein should have taught froshling physics. Let me rephrase slightly. The developer should be the one *responsible* for the documentation. He might not be the one actually writing it, but if he isn't he should be tapping someone to do the work. Otherwise you end up with software with no documentation, an all too frequent occurance. No, Einstein shouldn't be teaching the freshmen, but he should be teaching someone or his knowledge is going to waste. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message