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[Peter Mattingly]

>

> ReportLab Ltd. still cultivates its fear and wrong perceptions of losing

> control over its baby.



O.o

What a genuinely puzzling statement.  Usually OSS projects are so thrilled
to receive community help...

I'm sorry to hear about that.

--Peter

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 1:43 AM, Dinu Gherman
<gherman at darwin.in-berlin.de>wrote:


> Peter Mattingly:

>

>  [...]  So you're saying: if I want to "patch" (e.g. revise or completely

>> re-write from the ground up) a segment of documentation I have to send in

>> code?

>>

>

> So true, in fact! I haven't seen it so clearly before.

> It's kind of a blocker to ask people for code in order

> to document the code. And I'm saying this as someone who

> normally works with self-referential concepts in my tech-

> nical writing and software development.

>

>  I'm currently a student learning how to do more with Report Labs, I'm not

>> experienced enough with your conventions to create clean portable code.  But

>> at the same time, I'm able to revise and elucidate a section of the user

>> manual with perfect clarity and a few minutes time.  This would not be the

>> case with programmtically creating a similar solution.  If the time I've

>> spent so far is any indication, such a project would require *multiple

>> hours* of work to fully understand the entire process.  I suspect I've found

>> an inefficiency in the process of the community driven documentation you're

>> trying to create.

>>

>> I can however make changes to a Wiki, which is a much simpler approach

>> that others have taken to create community editable documents - including

>> user documentation.  The experience is akin to making a post on a forum or

>> writing a letter, rather than programming.

>>

>

> Very well explained! Wikis have been suggested repeatedly

> starting as long as eight years ago, maybe. And from my

> point of view the situation hasn't changed. ReportLab Ltd.

> still cultivates its fear and wrong perceptions of losing

> control over its baby.

>

> As long as this remains an emotional issue rather than a

> technical one, it is hard to see any perspective on real

> progress towards a development (and documentation) process

> which actually does significantly involve the community.

>

> One way out of this in the Open Source world would be a

> fork of the project - this is not a suggestion, but a re-

> minder. I hope it's not going to happen, but maybe this

> is also just another useless fear.

>

> Regards,

>

> Dinu

>

>

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