RE: Silence

At 04:00 PM 11/3/98 +100, you wrote:
>> But I do know that by far the greatest amount of traffic and messages re:
Apache
>> in general, including sometimes its documentation, takes place on
>> the "new-httpd" list.
>I listen daily the *main* list and the main reason for which I decided to wake

I saw the Halloween doc too. Is it possible it's for real?

>
>> But maybe we can get some activity going on this one. I'm a tech writer,

That's great! And language need not be a problem; I'm sure we can find someone to help us out with any translating that's needed. And I agree completely with your view of the role of documentation. Particularly for a (largely) Unix-based aplication like Apache, the "it's too cryptic" type of criticism can keep many people from considering it.

So, folks, what might we do for our first "Apache Documentation Group" project? Some of the fellows at new-httpd suggested the following:

• a "User's Guide" that would offer step-by-step, "how to install and configure" instructions
• some simple, "canned" configurations, already zipped and

I've taken a few stabs at the first, but it's nowhere near ready yet. I hopeto complete it by the end of this year. (Got delayed because of having to upgrade/reconfigure my PC. But in another week or two, will have two versions of Linux up, and apache under each, so will be able to resume at that point.)

Does anyone out there have any other ideas as to how we could further Stefano's goal of creating a body of Apache documentation that will aid the application in being further accepted and deployed in the business and enterprise spheres?

Michele
"Life is like an hourglass; consciousness is the sand." Received on Tue Nov 03 15:20:16 1998

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