On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 23:27, Derek Simkowiak wrote:
-> After you did the above, you will be in an excellent position to -> write this HowTo.
Good grief.
Why are you arguing that the Zope developer(s) -- who are already familiar with all the issues and the current Zope WebDAV status -- shouldn't take an hour to do a brain dump into a mini-HOWTO and publish it on the Zope.org website?
I think the value in such a document is obvious. I'm a bit disappointed (and worried for Zope) that there is so much push-back against such a small amount of documentation.
Of course it would be valuable. No-one's arguing anything. There's no push-back. It's just that the people doing the development from which you stand to benefit happen to have a different set of priorities from you. Isn't that their prerogative?
As somebody who does contract work, I can tell you that if a customer asked *MY* company for a single page of documentation, and I told them to simply spend a day or two browsing through old emails, they'd quickly switch to another vendor.
There is an enormous difference here: *YOU* get paid by customers to do the things which they ask you to do. Are *YOU* going to pay someone to write up the HOWTO? You just can't expect Zope as a free application to follow the laws of the proprietary software market, much as we'd all like to see Zope overtake PortalSiteServer 4.6 or whatever. seb