[asterisk-users] Why doesn't Asterisk project document certain important features of Asterisk officially?

[Sherwood McGowan]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Warren Selby <wcselby at selbytech.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Tilghman Lesher <tlesher at digium.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Wednesday 24 November 2010 11:07:40 Bruce B wrote:
>> > This is not to bash the Asterisk project or Digium. Don't respond if you
>> > have a difference of opinion as I am not looking for personal opinions
>> > but rather JUST WONDERING THE TECHNICAL/TACTICAL CAUSE of not
>> > documenting thing that are really hidden from the community and one has
>> > to go through a much manual process to find out about.
>>
>> It's not a tactical or even a conscious decision.  The documentation arose
>> at voip-info organically, from the days when there was only a single
>> committer to Asterisk.  There's never been much of a coordinated attempt
>> to replace that resource, mostly due to the large amount of labor that we
>> would need.  There are certainly efforts to document Asterisk and keep the
>> documentation up to date (see the Asterisk Documentation Project).
>> Anything that you would like to contribute in this regard would be
>> welcome.
>
> I thought that's what http://wiki.asterisk.org was supposed to be for....?
>
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> --Warren Selby, dCAP
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True, but then some of us registered on that site and still don't have
the ability to edit...I thought it was a community effort? Maybe I was
wrong