[documentation] Some thoughts

[Jennifer Hodgdon]

Hi Shari,

Welcome back to the Documentation list! This is a good place to 
discuss the issues of friendliness you are bringing up.

Regarding IRC, many people leave themselves connected to IRC even 
though they're not really following it; I don't really know why, 
unless they are just trying to make a log (maybe there's a better 
way). So I'm sorry you had that experience! Hopefully you will find 
this email list to be more welcoming than IRC was.

We are also having some "sprints" in the next few weeks, which are 
times you can guarantee that some other people will actually be on 
IRC: See http://drupal.org/node/540308 The documentation people do 
tend to be fairly friendly when we're actually on IRC.

Regarding your specific concern with the Installation guide, I totally 
agree with what you said -- Drupal can definitely be installed without 
access to the command line. The best forum for discussing specific 
concerns about specific pieces of documentation is not this list, 
however, but the Documentation Issue Queue. Specifically, the issue 
about the installation guide for Drupal 7 is:
     http://drupal.org/node/538054
Please put your concerns in a comment there.

Regards,
     Jennifer

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Jennifer Hodgdon * Poplar ProductivityWare
www.poplarware.com
Drupal, WordPress, and custom Web programming