Re: Sun documentation team.

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:

> On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 06:22:28PM +0100, Patrick Costello wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Due to pressure on documentation team resources, Sun can no longer continue
> > to update or maintain the following items:
> >    
>
>  
>
> > - Gnopernicus Help manual
> > - GNOME Accessibility Guide
> >    
>
> This is sad considering Sun is one of the big proponents of GNOME
> Accessibility.  It's unfortunate that we lose documentation people
> where we are at our weakest and continuing to be our weakest part
> of our DE. :/
>
>  
We (Sun and Gnome) need help with accessibility across-the-board, not 
just in docs.  It's unhealthy for any aspect of the DE to be  almost 
solely the work of a single company - it makes Gnome highly vulnerable 
to the inevitable resource shifts that occur in the corporate 
environment.  So we need to "spread the love" here... :-)

Sometimes folks say "I'd like to help, but I don't know enough about 
accessibility" (or it's "too hard to learn"/"sparsely documented", 
etc.).  The same could be said, or could have been said, for 
technologies like GTK+, GObject, etc., but fortunately a few people have 
made the effort to get themselves up to speed about these other 
technologies and APIs, and in so doing have benefited the entire user 
and developer communities.  Do I hear any volunteers?

regards

Bill

> I'm wondering if just the nature of how we do documentation is
> somewhat at fault here.  We need to try something new I think.
>
> sri
>