RE: [GD-Design] Design Documents

[Tom F. <to...@mu...>]

Wikis do indeed rock for docs that are trivially easy to maintain and
update. I heartily recommend them for pretty much everything - coding docs &
specs, design docs, todo lists (both personal and company), etc.

http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki for more info about Wikis and how they work and
stuff.

Tom Forsyth - Muckyfoot bloke.

What's he up to now (and can I have a go)?
http://www.eidosinteractive.com/downloads/search.html?gmid=86

> -----Original Message-----
> From: J C Lawrence [mailto:cl...@ka...]
> Sent: 07 November 2001 21:50
> To: Sellers, Mike
> Cc: 'gam...@li...'
> Subject: Re: [GD-Design] Design Documents 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 7 Nov 2001 14:08:07 -0600 
> Mike Sellers <Sellers> wrote:
> 
> > Yep.  And simplicity wins out *big* in areas like this.  Tools
> > that are way-cool but at all cumbersome to use just won't get
> > used; people will find it easier to circumvent the tools instead.
> > (FWIW, ours is a large team project too, so this doesn't seem to
> > have issues of scaling to support a large project or a large
> > team.)
> 
> Aye, this is specifically why I've installed WikiWikis (specifically
> TWiki) at three companies now.  The barrier to use factor is
> obscenely low, and its easy to create automated tools to
> mechanically inject and maintain relevant content (eg recent stats
> etc).
> 
> -- 
> J C Lawrence
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