I agree with Simon. The learning curve is very steep, but it doesn't have to be that way. I think the proposed developer docs will help this. The design docs are so out of date, and were never fully implemented anyway. If we need design docs, they should be simplified and updated to reflect the current state of the code. But I think documentation for someone who wants to build a web site with OpenACS is more important. Documentation for someone who wants to take existing packages and build a site as well as for someone who needs to build a new package is the most important.
