[FM Discuss] Notes on open source documentation from Open Source convention

[Andy Oram]

I'll toss in my agreement too. If you set up a system for evaluating writers, how do you know the evaluators know what they're doing? Maybe a writer has great ideas but has problems expressing them, perhaps because he's writing in a non-native language. But perhaps a little loving clean-up would fix it; that might escape the gatekeepers.

Andy

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From: "Janet Swisher" <jmswisher at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [FM Discuss] Notes on open source documentation from Open Source convention

I'm also in favor of accepting anyone who volunteers, and relying on
reviews to ensure quality. People whose work is truly bad might be a
burden to the group, but those people are unlikely to volunteer in the
first place, because they probably don't enjoy the work.


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