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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Results for Organization Policy vote
  • Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 15:54:27 -0700

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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
eric AT sandall.us | http://www.sourcemage.org/
http://eric.sandall.us/ | SysAdmin @ Shock Physics @ WSU
http://counter.li.org/ #196285 | http://www.shock.wsu.edu/
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