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Subject:RE: Username or user name (generalized) From:"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 5 Apr 2005 13:01:53 -0400 (EDT)
>
> Yes. The advantages to doing it so outweight the disadvantages that
> unless his group is lazy and/or shiftless, there should not be a
> counter-argument.
If he lost the vote, I don't know that I'd advise fighting further.
You tell me...what justifyable reason is there for
> the documentation to intentionaly deviate from the application...to
> make the development people look better? Apperently they don't care.
> To hide their mistakes from those in management who might care?
> That's the purpose.
>
The purpose seems to me to make the developers look bad, not good.
If one's concerned about excellence, democracy is not the best way to run
a documentation department.
> --- Bonnie Granat <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com> wrote:
> >
> > Steve said he was outvoted by his group. To me, that means he has
> > to do
> > what the group decided or suffer the consequences. He apparently
> > cannot
> > follow the best advice -- documenting what's there. Are you
> > suggesting that he should insist on it?
--
Bonnie Granat
www.GranatEdit.com
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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