[mythtv-users] MythFrontend 0.21: What is a watch list?

[Dan Ritter]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 08:55:24AM -0500, Andrew Close wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Brad DerManouelian
> <myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
> 
> >  Also, OpenSource is the only type of software development process I've
> >  ever seen where developers were expected to provide end-user
> >  documentation. The software companies I've worked for would fire any
> >  developer who tried to give doc to end users without going through a
> >  tech writer.
> >
> >  Please don't point out where I'm clearly wrong and that other
> >  companies have dev write doc. I'm speaking from my personal experience
> >  of the admittedly short 8 years working for software companies.
> 
> Brad, you are clearly wrong*.
> i've never worked on a project that had dedicated tech writers, and i
> have worked at some big companies on fairly large projects.
> documentation has always been in the domain of the developers and is
> almost always a /required/ part of the development process.  however,
> more often than not, timelines are immovable and something has to give
> so documentation goes out the window. :)  actually, at my current

I've got a dozen friends who are tech writers -- yes, literally
a dozen, and for 11 different companies -- and none of them are
programmers. All of them are in high demand.

Some of them work at very small companies -- 11 people in one
case. Some of them work at large companies.

-dsr-