Problem setting up wired networking

[John Morris]

On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 14:46, Jesse Keating wrote:

> If only people would volunteer to help with documenting the software,
> instead of demanding that documentation show up, instead of bugs being
> fixed.

That really isn't fair.  It's a chicken and the egg problem in that the
only way someone outside could write documentation is if someone inside
gives them some rudimentary documentation first.  After all, by your
reasoning anyone skilled enough to read the source should be adding
features and fixing bugs so apparently that route to knowledge is out.

Outside help can clean up documentation, enhance documentation, take
manpage level documentation and write detailed howtos for mortal users
to follow.  If they have some help from the developers they can even
update documentation to track changes.  Waiting for someone to appear
and present documentation from scratch for a system that nobody outside
the development team has knowledge of is asking for a miracle.

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