Re: Future of LedgerSMB: Ideas and RFC

[Luke <..hidden..>]

On Thu, 19 May 2011, Chris Bennett wrote:

> Installation is too difficult
> Since 1.3 is really just a development phase, I think this issue can be 
> put at a lower priority
> than documentation, but not too low.

I think I disagree with that, at least somewhat, from two prospectives:

First, while 1.3 is a development phase as you say, the project is hanging 
its hat on it.  We *need* user support for 1.3.  The next major release 
may be five years from now, who knows.

Therefore, we need non-hard-core developers to start working with it 
soonest.  Advanced users, partial developers.  There are people in the 
open source community who will test stuff without documents, if they can 
get it up and running.  I think there are fewer who will test something 
that is well documented, but is so broken that they can't even install it.

Second, If you can't install it, the documents, either development or user 
side documentation, are only partially accurate.

If the process doesn't conform to the documents, then the documents are 
meaningless. That's on the user side.  On the developer side, for 
documenting internals, it will be a lot easier for people other than Chris 
to help with that, if it can be installed successfully and predictably.

I'd say they are close to equal, but I'd maybe put installation first.

Just my .02

Luke