Further developments w.r.t. KDevelop documentation nightmare.

[Christopher Molnar]

Just wondering.... Have you contributed with coding or 
any activity to the KDE project? Maybe you could help 
fix some of those bugs in the buglog? I see on the tag 
line that you are a programmer, how about it, see 
anything you can fix?

Quoting Paul Derbyshire <derbyshire at globalserve.net>:

> At 09:41 AM 2/10/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >Man, what an attitude...
>
> Yes, what an attitude.
>
> My attitude is, if a job\'s worth doing it\'s worth 
doing right.
>
> In the open source world I\'m not expecting snazzy 
bells and whistles or
> even perfect spit and polish. But I don\'t think it\'s 
unreasonable to expect
> (non-alpha) software to simply work, out of the box, 
when the prerequisites
> are installed and functioning. And I don\'t think it\'s 
unreasonable to get
> annoyed and express that annoyance if it doesn\'t.
>
> Lastly, I think it\'s quite reasonable to criticize 
something or someone
> that has an obvious problem -- e.g. if a packager 
doesn\'t bother to include
> the documentation in a package he ships, leaving the 
user scratching his
> head with a partially non-functional product, this is 
simply stupid, and I
> can\'t think of any reasonable response other than to 
criticize that
> packager.
>
> Don\'t forget it\'s the squeaky wheel that gets the 
grease.
>
> Besides, I\'m not just criticizing for the sake of 
criticizing. I\'m also
> correcting the odd misleading remark (someone for 
example implied that
> KDevelop could be expected to work perfectly out of 
the box, which in the
> most recent non-alpha version, it clearly does not. 
And I\'m trying to get
> information to further the end of making it actually 
work. All of this, of
> course, would be unnecessary if the thing worked to 
begin with -- it\'s a
> sign of a problem with software if that software\'s 
mailing list is full of
> questions about how to get it to do something as 
basic as display its own
> documentation. And you can\'t claim I\'m dense or 
something about how to set
> it up, because multiple people have reported similar 
difficulties, and
> there\'s even a bug on the kdevelop bug list about it, 
although the bug
> ticket hasn\'t had any activity for over a year, 
itself a bad sign when it\'s
> obviously not because the bug was resolved.
>
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cones, coastlines are
> not
> -()  <  circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does 
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