Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 27 Sep 1999 11:54:25 -0400 | | From | Jeff Garzik <> | | Subject | Re: [Q]: Linux and real device drivers |
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Jes Sorensen wrote: > > >>>>> "David" == david parsons <o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s> writes: > > David> In article <linux.kernel.d3vh8y9e1p.fsf@lxp03.cern.ch>, Jes > David> Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch> wrote: > > >> These man pages (or whatever else) will get outdated, and there is > >> no way to enforce that they are updated. This is a free software > >> project, you can't just fire people for being too lazy to write > >> documentation. > > David> Sure you can: ``Until you write documentation, this isn't > David> going into the mainline kernel.'' > > Congratulations, you just lost somewhere between 75-95% of your > developers.
Yeah; I don't think that is such a hot idea at all.
Any doc system should be non-intrusive: hackers can ignore it if they want to (and let volunteers pick up the slack), or write docs if they want to.
Jeff
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