[drupal-docs] Help text

Ron Mahon ron at inmrc.com
Sun Apr 3 16:06:32 UTC 2005


I like the idea of a special place for help text to live. 

As I was thinking about this I wonder how many if any one will install them?

Unless all the help text's are part of the initial distribution. Perhaps
with a flag of installed or not. 

If you follow this to it's natural conclusion you might conclude that the
help file should be role dependent. Role 1 Admin-root users: Role 2 all
others

While this discussion is focused on installation help. If I was the user
advocate I would be concerned with users help. 

Centralizing all this information would certainly make it easer to maintain.
>From my experience in Program development it is almost imposable to get a
programmer to write good documentation or help files. 

They simply know too much. So a centralized location would lend it's self to
third party support of this function. 
Regards
Ron






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