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

[Sebastian Hilbert]

On Thursday, January 12, 2012 10:58:40 PM Andreas Tille wrote:
> 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.

All links and visual glitches should now be fixed.

See attachement.

Regards,
Sebastian

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