[Mailman-Developers] Just a thought about documentation

Marc Perkel marc at perkel.com
Mon Feb 3 08:33:58 EST 2003


One problem with developers writing their own documentation is that the 
developer never experienced learning the program. One of the problems with 
almost all free software is that the documentation could be a lot better.

There are also many schools out there that have courses for people who want to 
become technical writers. People who's job it will someday be to do software 
documentation. So it occurs to me that if technical writing colleges hooked up 
with free software projects and assigned documenting free software - such as 
Mailnan to students - that it would be beneficial for both worlds.

My two centz ....




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