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["Jeremy Blosser (emrys)" <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>]

On May 06, Eric Sandall [eric AT sandall.us] wrote:
> 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].

I don't think they were talking about developer policy, they were talking
about people not wanting to look in a glossary.

Which, given this conversation, I happened to create (actually, I extended
the one on the wiki without quite realizing it was there first):

http://www.sourcemage.org/Glossary

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