[ic] Re: [mv] documentation

[Markus Braasch]

Hello Tom,

I am 100% with you (but I am just a usual Interchange user, too). Interchange
has a lot of advantages compared to Openshop, Intershop and the like. But 
there are a couple disadvantages as well. One of them is the documentation.
But as soon as you have completed one of the more complicated shops out 
there, you will understand almost everything. And you will like it ...

I think the documentation should be written/improved by Interchange users, 
not by its developers.

Markus


On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Hello,
After reading most of the documentation I could find about interchange, I
would like to give a few personal remarks. Not that I want to hurt people by
commenting on their work, but because they really asked for comments on the
documentation.

What I think is needed most for new users is just a very basic "quick
interchange introduction".  so for example:
-a brief explanation of the fact that interchange relies on a server that
creates html-pages on-the-fly.
-You can adjust this page-creation and all kinds of database-operations by
the interchange-tags, but they aren't in the actual html-pages. They're
needed to build the pages.
-interchange uses a cgi-script that points to the pages. So their aren't any
pages in the cgi-bin, pages are in /pages/
-and most importent: a detailed description of the code of a few pages: eg.
the index.html, lefside, and a few other. Of course not all of the pages. I
think it will help new users more to look at a few pages, their code and the
explanation of what's happening than reading throughout the whole
all-covering tag reference: what does the ui_template there, this [area] tag
is used here for...., this is an image from the /thums/ dir etc.
-.....


I know all these things are fully covered in the reference guide, but if you
don't know any of the above, it's hard to distinguish between important
things and "nice add-ons".
Am I right or just writing a lot of qlksjfghfhgq ?

kind regards,
Tom

----- Original Message -----
From: Greg (Sonny) Cook <sonny@akopia.com>
To: <minivend-users@minivend.com>
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 9:30 PM
Subject: [mv] minivend--interchange documentation

> ******    message to minivend-users from "Greg (Sonny) Cook"

<sonny@akopia.com>     ******

> Hi all,
> By way of introduction, I am one of the developers at Akopia.  I have
> taken on (bravely IMHO) the task of documentation organization for our
> next release of intervend.  Even though I am personally opposed to
> documentation, I have a grand vision for a complete set of documents of
> the project.  Kind of everything from "What's a computer?" to "minichange
> hacker" level.  There is of course an already extant and rather copious
> corpus avaliable from Mike.  I've noticed it's still pretty hard to get
> going though.  At any rate, rather than share my concerns with the present
> state of the documentation, I'd like to determine what sort of
> documentation people would like to see.  Also what do you think we could
> do to the current documentation to improve it.  If you're feeling really
> ambitious, you could even write all of the documentation I want for me
>
> :-}.
>
> Currently I am combing through the mailing list archives, trying to rescue
> usefull information from the past.
>
> Thanks,
> Sonny Cook
>
>
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