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Don't you hate it when somebody is making all sorts of
conservative-sounding sense, and then they blow themselves
out of the water, and you have to question everything else
that they'd said?
Susan W. Gallagher offered:
> You need to write an installation manual? Fine - go grab the
> disks, stick 'em in a machine, watch what happens and write
> it down. Need to document a specific function? Play with it
> and figure out what it does. Then, when you've gone as far
> as you can go on your own, ask questions of the devs to fill
> in the blanks.
We're now two days from my hard due date, and only yesteday
did they "finalize" about the installation, and if we
receive an RC (release candidate CD image) that actually
matches what was said in the meeting, BEFORE I hit my
sign-off date, it will be something beyond a miracle.
Did I mention that the project's been in the works for months?
> Be intrepid - ask testing where the system for you to break
> is located. <g>
I've got the guy in the next booth to do the real breaking.
I just do non-chalant breaking... you know, in passing.
Mostly, I've been pointing out inconsistencies and blatant
muck-ups in the user interface. Oh... and writing documents
based on best-guess and rough approximation. My guesses have
gotten better over the years.
> As far as not knowing the release schedule or the content --
> well, some dev teams are like that. Who's in charge? Ask!
> If that doesn't work, make friends... go to lunch with the
> devs, play ping pong with 'em, whatever it takes.
They play street hockey. I never learned and nobody wants
a newbie draggin' the game down.
> But if you sit there waiting for information to come to you,
> you'll almost certainly be disappointed.
Oh hell yeah. I've started taking you seriously again. :-)
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