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From: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@glug.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, xemacs-design@xemacs.org
Subject: Re: "Extreme Documentation" [was: INFO on add-ons]
Date: 03 Sep 2002 15:05:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jku1l6lwrf.fsf@glug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Stephen J. Turnbull"'s message of "Tue, 03 Sep 2002 13:16:28 +0900"

   "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> writes:

   Aggregating that would
   be very useful, but how?

through indirection.  wikis point back to "official" as well as informal
documentation; if official maintainers do not sit on top of the tree, that's
ok, too.  to paraphrase godel on documentation: any collection that is
complete is not official and any official collection cannot be complete.

any policy (draconian or not) based on exclusion never leads to completeness.

you cannot exclude ignorance or other lackings, even if you tried.

thi



  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-09-03 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <3D728E82.8000808@cox.net>
2002-09-01 22:16 ` INFO on add-ons Alex Schroeder
2002-09-02 23:49   ` David A. Cobb
     [not found]   ` <3D73F919.5010706@cox.net>
2002-09-03 22:56     ` Alex Schroeder
2002-09-04  0:48       ` Alex Schroeder
2002-09-04  1:39         ` Miles Bader
2002-09-04  4:47           ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-04  5:02             ` Miles Bader
2002-09-04  5:06               ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-04  5:14                 ` Miles Bader
2002-09-04 13:20                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-04 13:34                     ` Miles Bader
2002-09-05  4:46                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-05 12:09                         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2002-09-05 14:52                         ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-09-04 22:40           ` Alex Schroeder
2002-09-05  2:46           ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-07  7:44           ` Pavel Janík
2002-09-04  4:44         ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-04 12:13         ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-09-04  4:42       ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-02  1:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2002-09-02 14:53 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-02 23:59   ` David A. Cobb
     [not found] ` <87ptvxxkoj.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
2002-09-02  1:36   ` Miles Bader
     [not found]   ` <buok7m5jhpm.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp>
2002-09-02  4:51     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
     [not found]     ` <87fzwtxad9.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
2002-09-02  5:04       ` Miles Bader
     [not found]       ` <buoelcdj82q.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp>
2002-09-02  6:03         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2002-09-02 23:47           ` David A. Cobb
     [not found]           ` <3D73F89D.2070106@cox.net>
2002-09-03  4:16             ` "Extreme Documentation" [was: INFO on add-ons] Stephen J. Turnbull
2002-09-03 15:49               ` David A. Cobb
2002-09-03 19:05               ` Thien-Thi Nguyen [this message]
2002-09-04  3:51                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2002-09-04  5:58                   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-09-03 13:26           ` INFO on add-ons Richard Stallman
2002-09-03 15:43             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2002-09-03 16:30               ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-09-03 17:33                 ` Henrik Enberg
2002-09-03 17:58                   ` Miles Bader
2002-09-03 20:54                     ` Kai Großjohann
2002-09-03 20:54                   ` Kai Großjohann
2002-09-02 23:40       ` David A. Cobb
     [not found]       ` <3D73F6D1.7010002@cox.net>
2002-09-03  4:42         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2002-09-03 15:39           ` David A. Cobb
2002-09-03 16:23             ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-09-03 22:23               ` David A. Cobb
2002-09-04  1:18               ` Miles Bader
2002-09-04  3:39                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2002-09-04  3:46                   ` Miles Bader
2002-09-04  7:23                     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2002-09-05  2:17                       ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-09-04 14:38                   ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-09-04 17:42                     ` Ville Skyttä
2002-09-04 22:14                       ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-09-05  2:53                     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2002-09-05 13:37                       ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-09-06  2:40                         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2002-09-06 12:18                           ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-09-06 13:30                             ` Miles Bader
2002-09-06 20:03                           ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-05 13:54                       ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-09-05 20:16                         ` Ville Skyttä
2002-09-04 15:49                   ` Stefan Monnier
2002-09-04 17:12                     ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-09-04 18:22                     ` Ville Skyttä
2002-09-05  1:48                       ` Miles Bader
2002-09-05  2:32                         ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-09-05  4:51                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-05  6:00                             ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-09-05 13:25                           ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-09-05  4:48                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-05  4:22                     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2002-09-05 18:02                     ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-06  1:19                       ` Miles Bader
2002-09-06 20:03                         ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-04  4:44                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-04 12:29                 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-09-05  2:46                 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-02 23:22   ` David A. Cobb

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