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

[Erik Steffl]

John Check wrote:
> On Friday 13 August 2004 06:33 pm, Erik Steffl wrote:
> 
>>John Check wrote:
>>
>>>On Thursday 12 August 2004 03:34 pm, Erik Steffl wrote:
>>>
>>>>John Check wrote:
>>>>...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>One act gigging with this stuff is worth a dozen coders when it comes to
>>>>>legitimizing the platform. There's so much potential with what's here
>>>>>today that it blows my mind, but if it's "by geeks, for geeks" it really
>>>>>limits were
>>>>
>>>>  not that long ago it wasn't even that. The sound/audio/music software
>>>>in linux is improving rapidly. obviously, you get the by geeks for geeks
>>>>stuff first because it cannot be any other way - it takes time to make
>>>>the program stable enough to be usable by general public.
>>>
>>>Yup. There's a definite progression. I'm not unfamiliar with development
>>>cycles, as far as does it _have_ to be that way, it's a debatable point.
>>
>>   not really, you will always have nothing, then something incomplete
>>sort of usable and only after that there's something usable (if you're
>>lucky:-)
> 
> The operative word is _always_. How long is such a thing tolerable?

   oh, what I meant was: in each case, not always. In a sense that each 
project starts from nothing, goes through sort of something usable and 
hopefully gets to a stage when it is usable by (acceptable to) end-user.

   and it seems like linux audio is getting there, i.e. it is not 
stagnating (that was my main point). And I agree that it is at the point 
where ease of use and documentation starts to be really important (which 
I think is your main point).

	erik