Re: Bugtracker cleanup/update

[Trevor Daniels]

Graham Percival wrote Saturday, May 31, 2008 8:54 AM
> On Sat, 31 May 2008 09:28:50 +0200
> John Mandereau <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > An unsure question is, should big doc work like GDP go on on master
> > after 2.12?
>
> No, because barring a miracle, there won't be anybody[1] left to do
> big doc work.
>
> [1]  Trevor, I mean no offense whatsoever when I imply that you're
> nobody.  :)

No problem :)  In any case, I'm unlikely to ever have
as much time to spend on docs as last autumn, when I
worked on the LM.  That was pretty well full-time for
2-3 months.

> * the one caveat is docs about programming in scheme; I believe
> that Trevor would like to rewrite that chapter.  I highly
> doubt that we'll get to that stage during GDP... but it will be
> easy enough to backport an entire .itely file to stable when he's
> done.

I think John and I might both like to work on this, but
this is well into the future. 

> Really, the whole point of GDP is to reduce the burden of doc
> maintenance.  Barring writing new docs for new features (which I can't
> predict), I expect that maintaing the .itely files will be about 2
> hours per month 
> (not counting reading email),

This actually takes up most of my available time
at the moment.  I've seriously thought of unsubscribing
from -user, but then I'd quickly lose touch, so it's
not really an option.

> and the snippet
> maintenance to be 1 hour per month (again, not counting email).
> Furthermore, these jobs can easily be done by separate people, so we
> don't need to overwhelm one poor sap.
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham