Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: GNUmed manual

[James Busser]

On 10-Sep-08, at 6:24 AM, Gour wrote:

> "For the beginning, I am humbly asking you to work on the manual's
> outline (being in Haskell, I'm top-bottom guy) and write it down -  
> based
> on current wiki docs.

Here are one person's thoughts:

- I will need to scale back a bit of my energy for other things hence  
need to choose wisely

- my highest priorities include maintaining whatever is current  
momentum, that means helping to keep information clear for the  
benefit of current participants and this means keeping wiki pointers  
and status information updated and (as admin) clearing out some spam  
that is being protected from entering gnumed-devel and gnumed-bugs

- there is also my side-work to get Mirth working so GNUmed can  
import HL& labs from my region and I am hoping that the method and  
the Mirth channels that I am getting developed will at last assist  
others by being able to be used as a starting point

- also in the interest of current participants being able to work  
more effectively then if bugs can be handled better that will be  
great and to this extent I support the being-improved bug process

- when I have the chance I may put some forward-thinking thoughts  
together about what GNUmed faces... there is a tension between  
wanting to make it usable for more people but also the idea of  
sustainability and both involve some clearer picture of where and how  
we want to get

- all of the above I introduce so that Gour can know any slowness on  
my part to jump into manual *writing* is not to be confused with any  
non-support of the *proposal*. I think before I would ever get to
*writing* I would wish to get clear for myself what and how we want  
to write which will serve a different/better/complementary purpose  
than what the wiki does. These may include things like offline,  
version-frozen, figures or diagrams etc. This is maybe suitably done  
at the same time as an outline.

We can also first review
        http://salaam.homeunix.com/bin/view/Gnumed/DocumentationPlanner
        http://salaam.homeunix.com/bin/view/Gnumed/DocumentationNG