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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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David Kowis wrote:
> Andrew wrote:
>>>> Think of what a new user generally does: If he doesn't know what a 
>>>> grimoire is 
>>>> in the first place, he's prone to look it up. And when the document he's 
>>>> reading clearly states what grimoire names such as "earth" and "water" 
>>>> mean, 
>>>> it's a no-brainer.
>>> Or he wont look it up at all. Which is probably more likely. Users have
>>> enough to figure out already...
> 
> I agree, it should be kept simple. I don't want to go read documentation
> when I start farting with a linux distro. Simple things like cast,
> dispel, sorcery, and gaze can be done in a quick blurb.
<snip>

I don't think many people will read the developer policy before trying
out a distro. ;) More likely they would read the Social Contract[0], our
documentation[1], and possibly the forums[2].

- -sandalle

[0] http://www.sourcemage.org/SocialContract
[1] http://www.sourcemage.org/docs and http://wiki.sourcemage.org/
[2] http://forums.sourcemage.org/


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Eric Sandall                     |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
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http://eric.sandall.us/          |  SysAdmin @ Shock Physics @ WSU
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