[documentation] does this seem funny to anyone else?

[Steve Dondley]

Walter,

This proves that following the "Build it and they will come" is a
gamble. You need buy-in and agreement from others most of the time.

To get buy-in, you need karma. To get karma, you need to contribute.
To contribute, you need to work within the system as it is.

Call it politics or whatever, but that is how humans haved tended to
operate for the last 3 million years. I don't think it's likely to
change anytime soon.

That is why my advice to ricco is to not ask the community to bend to
his needs but to have him bend to the community's needs. If the
community jumped at every request from every person, no matter how
worth, nothing would get done. You need to first earn the reputation
to be able to persuade others that your way is superior.

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Walter GR <waltergr at aol.com> wrote:
> ricco at webulite.com wrote:
>  > lol... this kind of cracks me up. In a frustrating kind of way :)
>   > <snip>
>  >
>  > Cheers! Ricco
>
>  In June of last year, I suggested that doing documentation-as-a-wiki
>  might be a good idea.
>
>  I created one, much to others' chagrin.  They suggested I join the
>  documentation team.  I decided to pursue that route.
>
>  As I had a wiki at my disposal, I decided to use it for proposing some
>  changes to the documentation.  I spent *hours* making improvements, and
>  then posted a link requesting feedback:
>
>  http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/documentation/2007-June/005657.html
>
>  Nobody gave any feedback.  I don't even know if anyone looked at my
>  proposed changes.
>
>  Best of luck, Ricco.
>
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