From: Earnie B. <ea...@us...> - 2007-11-08 22:07:36
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Quoting NightStrike <nig...@gm...>: > On Nov 8, 2007 12:32 PM, Earnie Boyd <ea...@us...> wrote: >> >> Quoting Kai Tietz <Kai...@on...>: >> >> > >> > I would work together with some volunteers to build up such a >> > documentation. But alone, I don't think, that I will be able to complete >> > it in my live time. So may there are others, who are willing to work on >> > this, too ? >> > >> >> Start it, publicize it and others will help. You can begin publicizing >> in the SF Help Wanted forum as well as the MinGW users list. Make sure >> you state the caveat that patches to MinGW will not be welcome for >> those helping with the documentation but that the documentation would >> help others create the needed patches. > > Doc writers can't write patches? > As stated in my original comment you will need to be infected by looking at the PSDK source to complete the documentation. Therefore patches from the documenter would not be accepted. It is known as a ``clean room'' technique where the coder isn't contaminated with the copyrighted source while the documenter can be. The documenter must use grammatical sentence structure and not appear to be copying the source document. Earnie |