Re: [JBoss-dev] RE: [JBoss-user] JBOSS 3.x FINAL

[David J. <dav...@di...>]

Ummm....
In your previous post you wrote
"I've seen a lot of
complaints
in the forums regarding the same issues in the documentation for sale -
probably the only reason I haven't laid down my 10 spot yet. "
...
"And if I were going to pay for
documentation, I don't want a print document that's going to be out of date
in two weeks. "

A couple of minutes of investigation would have revealed that the for pay
2.4.4 documentation you are declining to buy so as to, perhaps, show your
support of JBoss and encourage the developers to write more documentation,
is the exact same book that you are applauding at Amazon:

http://www.jboss.org/doco.jsp

"In order to support the development of JBoss and ensure that the
documentation remains up to date, we offer a PDF version of the JBoss book
to be published by SAMS publishing. "

Following the link also brings you to the Comperehensive Documentation
Subscription at the very top of the page, really hard to miss.

david jencks

On 2002.03.14 17:50:27 -0500 Mac Rinehart wrote:
> Another reason for different versions of the documentation for different
> releases. The fact is that some people - particularly risk conscious
> corporate users - will continue to use 2.4 and not jump to 3.0 until
> another
> rev or two are out the door.
> 
> Regarding Open source friendly tech writers - I think that could work,
> but
> it's got to take a little formal organization from the inside too. I can
> see
> tech writers donating their writing services, but they probably would
> like
> to have some established procedures for how to access information, style
> conventions and the like. I see that they sort of information is
> available
> for developers, I haven't seen it for tech writers (which doesn't mean
> much
> since I've only been following things actively for a couple of weeks).
> 
> I would provide some tech writing services pro-bono, but establishing a
> procedure for getting the documentation in place is something that takes
> a
> little organization. What's the status on JBoss Group's process for
> developing administration and user documentation?
> 
> And BTW, this seems to be a good opportunity for plugging "JBoss
> Administration & Development", coming out on March 22 and doing excellent
> on
> sales at Amazon already! Congrats. How does the book do in terms of
> covering
> version 3?
> 
> 
> Mac Rinehart, President
> Sextant Technology Consulting, Inc
> 
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> Rinehart
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Ward [mailto:dav...@do...]
> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 1:42 PM
> To: Mac Rinehart
> Cc: Jboss-Development@Lists. Sourceforge. Net; Jboss-User@Lists.
> Sourceforge. Net
> Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] RE: [JBoss-user] JBOSS 3.x FINAL
> 
> 
> It doesn't always lag - sometimes it's too eager!  Example: I had a
> gripe that 2.4 documentation started disappering off the web site, being
> replaced with 3.0 documentation when 3.0 was only alpha.  I think that
> the 2.4 docs should stay available online - at least until 3.x goes
> final.
> 
> Mac Rinehart wrote:
> > The free user documentation is only moderately useful, and
> > lags behind development on a number of issues.
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