Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to Code freeze in favor of documentation for 4.7

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Posted by Dave Bauer on
Roberto,

I think this is a great idea. We have some plans and an initial outline for improved documentation linked here: http://dev.openacs.org/projects/openacs/developers/todo

OpenACS works, people are using it to build web sites. 4.6 is a big release that fixes many bugs. To improve the system we really need better documentation. This will even help core developers to improve systems such as permissions by gaining a better understanding of what the goals of OpenACS should be.

We need to look hard at the requirements docs that we have, and see if those are still the requirements we want. If they are we need to bring each package up to the functionality that was originally planned. Otherwise we need to redfine the requirements for the needs of current and future OpenACS developers.