[Development] Documentation proposal: Remove recommended reading list of 20-year-old books

[Berkay Elbir]

Yeah, replacing would be better than just removing...

On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Hausmann Simon <
Simon.Hausmann at theqtcompany.com> wrote:

> I think that there is a b‎ig difference between it being easy enough to
> find reading material and us - the project - making specific
> recommendations for material that we think is of particularly high quality
> and perhaps also relevance. The latter adds real value to our documentation.
>
> I think that if there is evidence that the currently suggested material is
> not suitable anymore, then it would be great to replace it with another
> recommendation.
>
> Simon
>
>   Original Message
> From: Sze Howe Koh
> Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2015 09:49
> To: development at qt-project.org
> Subject: [Development] Documentation proposal: Remove recommended reading
> list of 20-year-old books
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/threads.html#recommended-reading points readers
> to some books about multithreading. These books were published between
> 1995 and 1997, and have been well and truly superseded by newer ones.
>
> Rather than update the list, I plan to remove it completely. I don't
> think this list belongs in the Qt docs, just like how we don't
> maintain a list of "learning C++" books. It's easy enough these days
> to find reading material for these foundational topics.
>
> Any objections?
>
>
> Regards,
> Sze-Howe
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