Lack of documentation (Was: Re: kernel support for non-English user messages)

[John Bradford]

> > > >   /Documentation is *awful*.

> > > You know where to submit contributions

> > If I could *write* the documentation, I wouldn't need it,
> > now would I?  Maybe that's the problem...

> If nobody would write the docs, nobody would read them ;)

Compare:

http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hacking-guide/hhg.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/users-guide/using_gnuhurd.html

with /Documentation

I think we can do better.  I have made several offers to compile
documentation that is forwarded to me in to a more user-friendly
format, but few people seem interested.

John.