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Subject:Re: The project that would not end! From:Bob Gembey <bob -at- SUPERNOVA -dot- NL> Date:Thu, 20 May 1999 09:50:14 +0200
Get that turkey out of there! clean it up, ship it out, and move on -- you
can get it right next time. We're not trying to write Shakespeare --
there'll probably be a 2.0 version of the product.
<<Now, if you were in our position, would you push the deadline even
further
back (remember that the manual has been written over the course of two
years!) and rewrite the chapters (all 970 pages of them) so that you could
submit a winner? Or would you simply copyedit, fill in whatever holes still
exist in the content, and do all of the production stuff to ready it for
publication, but leave the content of each chapter as is so you could get
on
with life?>>
