Re: constructive criticism

[John Williams]

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> Why not edit the texinfo source directly, and send a patch?

You are asking the users to learn texinfo, diff and patch before they
can help you.  And as someone else pointed out, if they install a prebuilt
version, they don't even have the texinfo source.

(Personally, gnu info is the only thing that has ever made me want to run
screaming back to windows, but maybe that's just the user-interface.)


I conceed to the various points made about wiki.  In addition, it would
impossible to filter with lilypond and still pretend to have any sort of
security.

The "manual with comments" format might still help you, though.
Whenever you take a documentation-day before a release, you could review
the new comments, and incorporate good suggestions into the docs.
It lowers the barrier for users, and isn't a constant drain on your time.


In another message, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> I agree with Jan on this one: if the threshold is lowered, then we
> will get less useful information.

Um, are you getting *any* useful information now?  via documentation
bug-reports and patches, that is?