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Documentation: Re: Rate It <suggestion>
****** message to minivend-users from Birgitt Funk <birgitt@minivend.com> ******
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999 mikeh@minivend.com wrote:
> ****** message to minivend-users from mikeh@minivend.com ******
>
> I am a bit dismayed about people's opinion of the documentation, which
> I have spent quite a bit of effort on over the years. But I have been
> listening and do know that it doesn't seem to be what people want. I am
> thinking about getting a professional to do a real manual and then sell
> a CD-ROM with a manual and a CGI user interface to MiniVend.
>
No need to be dismayed, I think. More a need to find out why, especially
as a lot of work went into it.
If a professional manual is going to be written and you consider a
German translation of it, let me know. I know a person who regularly
translates English written books about Linux for O'Reilly into German.
He is also author of some quite successful German titles published
by O'Reilly and works on KDE.
> >
> > On the other hand, the way the "Rate Us" page is set, shows also some
> > courouge, as it doesn't suppress any criticism into a black whole,
> > which only Mike Heins could read and use. That might be more important.
>
> I thought everyone knew that I don't want to control what people say
> about MiniVend.
Yes, certainly. Sorry that it sounded differently.
> For one thing, I try to let it keep a low profile as
> I am inundated as it is. Luckily the mail list is here, and it
> has grown to the point where if I dropped off the face of the earth
> I think MV would continue on quite nicely without me.
>
Yes, but people might miss you, as we have already learned
about your feeping creaturitis and got spoiled with the never
ending resulting add-ons to MiniVend. So, better postpone
the dropping off for a bit later. 8-)
Birgitt Funk
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