[Mailman-Developers] Just a thought about documentation

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "MP" == Marc Perkel <marc at perkel.com> writes:

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

True!

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

Wow, Marc, that's an excellent idea.  Do you have any contacts and/or
could you facilitate this?

-Barry