discuss: Tracking hits to a HOWTO?
Subject:
Re: Tracking hits to a HOWTO?
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
20 Apr 2004 05:46:10 -0000
Message-Id: <20040420054511.GA780@lafn.org>
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 12:01:56PM -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> Also, it really does provide some measure of which documents are more
> important to users, and therefore help LDP's efforts at quality
> control.
>
> Plenty of ways to skin this cat, *if* we want to skin it. I see some
> value in the idea, but does anyone else?
Some docs may be seldom used but very important. Consider the
hypothetical example for two docs:
A doc on how to design and encode font.
A doc on selecting and displaying fonts (using fonts) on a PC.
Now for each font designer using the design doc, there may be many
thousands of people using the doc on using fonts. But without the
designer, there wouldn't be fonts to use. In other word, the design doc
allows someone to create something that many thousands of people use
even though these thousands of people don't use the design doc. So one
person using the design doc may be just as important as thousands using
the user doc.
There are many similar examples.
David Lawyer
