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

[John Check]

On Friday 13 August 2004 09:55 pm, Erik Steffl wrote:
> 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.
>

Okay, that's sensible.

>    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).
>

Yes. IMO we're clearly in "beta" territory (no pun)

> 	erik