From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 05:49:03 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20141206104903.GC19750@thyrsus.com> References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <2815659.zRQ0WWWeRr@descartes> <20141205175810.GD3120@thyrsus.com> <87lhmlncb1.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <20141205193643.GB5067@thyrsus.com> <87tx19rd1b.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20141205215138.GF7784@thyrsus.com> <54823617.4000406@cs.ucla.edu> <83k325195l.fsf@gnu.org> <5482D94B.2070102@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417863009 8044 80.91.229.3 (6 Dec 2014 10:50:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 10:50:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 06 11:50:03 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XxCw5-0004mJ-Di for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 11:50:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54014 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxCw5-0003h1-3C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 05:50:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43699) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxCvo-0003gu-Si for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 05:49:49 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxCvk-0002pI-KT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 05:49:44 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:32856 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxCve-0002nq-3Z; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 05:49:34 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A74B2383523; Sat, 6 Dec 2014 05:49:03 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5482D94B.2070102@cs.ucla.edu> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:179145 Archived-At: Paul Eggert : > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >90% of the effort of writing good documentation is not producing markup > > True, but if we can make the process of writing documentation even > 5% more efficient or 5% more inviting, that could well be such a > long-term win that it's worth the conversion hassle. More generally, none of the individual steps to enable new contributions are sufficient, but they're all necessary. -- Eric S. Raymond