[vlc] Re: AW: Documentation for VLC/Windows

[Gildas Bazin]

The good thing about a wiki is that the users are in control. They can 
document what they want and how they want to. And nobody will complain if 
they document temporary/unuseful features because they will only be 
loosing/spending their own time on this.

Of course, wikis become really useful only when enough users are 
participating/updating the documentation. But when this is the case, it 
greatly reduces the documentation burden of developers because they 
basically only have to check the correctness of the existing documentation 
and help to document new features.

--
Gildas

On Thursday 01 May 2003 19:56, Catherine Nolan wrote:
>  --- Gildas Bazin <gbazin at netcourrier.com> wrote: 
> 
> > Maybe it would be time to think about setting up a
> > videolan wiki web site ?
> > That could partly displace the burden of writing
> > documentation to the users 
> > instead of developers. (http://zwiki.org/HelpPage)
> 
> Great idea.
> 
> It's not really necessary to download extra
> documentation with the program, as long as it is
> available somewhere for those who need it.  Anyone who
> already knows what they're doing won't have it taking
> up hard drive space.
> 
> I'm new to this concept, though- would we only
> document unchanging (i.e. command-line) usage, or
> could we elaborate (redundantly and unnecessarily) on
> the temporary features available in different
> interfaces?
> 
> Sorry if I've opened a can of worms...

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