windoze version?

[Derek Atkins]

Jon Lapham <lapham at jandr.org> writes:

> But, this is simply not true.
>
> For example, on Oct 7 David Harrison observes that there are problems
> with the Depreciation documentation.
> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2004-October/012126.html
>
> After a number of emails being exchanged between him and I (and the
> list!), I updated the docs with his suggestions 3 weeks later:
>
> 2004-10-31  Jon Lapham  <lapham at jandr.org>
>      * guide/C/ch_dep.xml: David Harrison's updates
>
> Do you have an example where someone had suggested changes to the
> documentation and the changes were not made?

Oct 7 -> Oct 31 is three weeks.  That's way too long for a FAQ to get
introduced and deployed.

>> and allowing users to feed in
>> FAQs is a "good thing".
>
> Totally, I just do not see the advantage of a wiki over the existing
> mailing lists mechanism.

- Speed of deployment.
- Distributed editorship.
- real-time editing.

>> 3) Provide a simple mechanism for users to add questions/answers to the
>>    faq.
>
> Sure, the mailing lists would work great for this.

Are you able to guarantee 48-hour turnaround on suggested FAQ items?
72-hour turnaround?

-derek

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