[linux-audio-user] some thoughts about Linux audio software documentation

[Pete Bessman]

At Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:13:02 -0400,
Dave Phillips wrote:
> 
>   Any comments ? Any takers ? Does anyone care ?

Personally, I care very deeply.  I think it's sad that UIs and Docs
tend to go out the window in favor of The Next Feature.  My roadmap
for Specimen includes more than just piling on features (I've spent a
solid month designing the UI with Thorsten, and have just now begun
implementing it with PHAT).  There's time for the UI, time for the
Docs, in addition to time for the engine.  I have no problem sticking
with a sub-optimal implementation of a feature while I work on other
things.

However, I am but one dude.  Post 1.0, I can help out more generally,
but at the moment I am focused on Specimen, and every minute I
contribute to another project is a minute I'm not contributing to my
own.  I don't say this to be competitive, simply to reinforce the fact
that improving our abysmal doc situation isn't something you can
really expect most developers to help with; at least not so long as
their own app is still critically incomplete.

-- 
Pete

www.gazuga.net

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