RE: How do I document vaporware?

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

PS:  Yes, I can spell "imminent".  I just can't type it. 

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inc -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On Behalf Of McLauchlan, Kevin
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 10:11 AM
> To: John Cook; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: How do I document vaporware?
> 
>  John C replied in jest, but I think that that might actually be the
> best approach. 
> 
> Others noted that leaving the broken features in the 
> interface is a form
> of "promise to perform", but I will point out that "a future 
> release" is
> not any kind of specific promise about "the very next release"... So
> it's not that iminent.
> 
> Where you WOULD (IMHO) run into that kind of difficulty is if you
> document them as you currently think they are going to work, and then
> that changes when the features finally get implemented.
> 
> Instead, the blank page or a nearly-blank page (lots of white 
> space) and
> a standard:
>  " - Possible future feature. Funtionality not established. - "
> 
> And then pointers to what other folks suggested about workarounds or
> "You can't get there from here."
> 
> For purposes of place-holding, you could always document the way a
> feature is supposed to work, then hide the text.
> 
>  - Kevin
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> John Cook replied:
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 9:42 PM
> > To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> > Subject: Re: How do I document vaporware?
> > 
> > Blank pages. Obviously.  ; )
> > 
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