Re: [Gnumed-devel] GnuMed documentation (Was: GNUmed 1.1.9 Maintenance Release)

[Andreas Tille]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 09:20:31PM +0100, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
> Dropping is not a good idea as there are people who do not have cheap and 
> reliable internet connection.

Well, lets speak about numbers:

   http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=gnumed-client

Please be not fooled by the number of installations but consider the
number for "vote" (the number of people who use this package regularly).
You might probably know all these seven users and can ask them
personally about their internet connection.  So yes, the documentation
packages exist for the very reason you were giving in theory.  However,
in practice of this actual case gnumed-doc it's actually not that much
to download even through a modem.  Moreover if you ask me:  The current
quality of the local documentation does not make a good user experience
- I would not like to point users to this, thought.
 
> Thanks for checking this stuff. I will see what I can do. 
> 
> Oh and by the way. the uglyness is reduced when we will export to html with 
> skin plain (I have tested this)

There are two options of handling for me:

   1. Dropping gnumed-doc (at least for the next couple of releases -
      it would make extra manual work for ftpmaster to remove a package
      just to add it again next week or so).
   2. Waiting for the next release(s) until you fixed the docu to an
      acceptable state (regarding a good user experience).

Which option would you prefer (or would you suggest a 3rd option?)

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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