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Subject:RE: Username or user name (generalized) From:John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 5 Apr 2005 10:12:35 -0700 (PDT)
> > 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.
This isn't a vote thing...the product manager is the one to make the
decision.
>
> > 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 of having the UI mistakes uncloaked is so someone outside
of that community can be shown what's going on and how bad the UI
elements look. None of it is to make any person look good or bad. The
purpose is to make the product look good through improvement.
>
> 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?
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
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