Re: A suggestion

On 10 April 2013 02:10, Zbigniew <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2013/4/10, Liam Proven <[email protected]>:
>
>> I meant what I said. If I had to, say, document a piece of completely
>> new and unfamiliar software, I would expect to spend as long writing
>> it as exploring it. When I wrote a piece on how to set up a Linux
>> machine as a small network server in about 1997, it took me about two
>> months of experimentation and learning and two weeks of writing - for
>> 10,000 words of documentation.
>
> That's why I suggested, that the best would be to have the docs
> written directly by creators of Gobo. They don't need to explore
> anything; they still remember all the bits and bytes.

Sure, agreed - but do you think they remember every step?

>> To document the process of building that distro from scratch?
>> Conservatively, 6 months' work.
>>
>> I am not a quick writer, but I know of much slower ones, too.
>
> Well, take something opposite: to create decent computer game it may
> take 3 months. Or even a year. The docs for the player will comprise -
> say - 10-20 pages brochure, and surely it won't take 5 years to write
> them.

That's a manual to play the game. You are asking for a manual to
/recreate/ the game.

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