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Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: |
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> On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 10:21:54 +0100, |
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> Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o> wrote: |
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>>* If we're looking to increase the flow of end users -> super users -> |
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>>developers, perhaps we should focus more upon improving development |
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>>tools or development documentation. |
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> I would also suggest creation of a gentoo-dev-help@ mailing-list. |
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> Something similar to what, i guess, the homonym IRC chan is, but for |
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> people who don't like IRC. Maybe i'm wrong and that's not the |
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> intention, but after 4 years of reading on gentoo-dev@ (yeah, today is |
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> anniversary of my subscription - yik, that's more than 36K emails in |
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> this maildir) , my feeling is that it's not the right place for users |
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> to ask technical questions about development/contributing (ebuilds |
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> writing, etc.). It's not that i fear this ML, but i see it mainly as a |
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> place for dev-to-dev communication on general/important topics (gleps |
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> discussion, common sense reminders, random flamewars, etc.), and thus i |
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> see the occasional "How {c,sh}ould i do something?" messages about |
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> small details as somehow off-topic, and i tend to avoid posting some. |
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> Seeing how more numerous this kind of messages are on "Portage & |
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> Programming" forums, or on gentoo-user*@ lists, i guess i'm not the |
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> only user with such feeling. But forums or users MLs are not really |
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> satisfactory for non-obvious questions, because the devs/users rate |
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> there is too low. |
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> So, what i usualy do when i'm not sure about something, in an ebuild i |
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> wrote for instance, is to post it as-is on bugs.g.o, with the |
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> questions left open in my report. But they will stay unanswered if |
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> the bug falls in the "maintainer-wanted@" oubliettes, or if the |
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> assignee is too short in time to explain me why he choosed one solution |
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> rather than an other. And even if i get my answer, it will be from a |
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> single dev, whereas others might have had a different views on the |
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> topic. |
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> Finally, i think such a mainling list could give good hints on what to |
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> improve in the documentation. Some legitimate questions may point to |
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> real lacks in the documentation, and some answers could be starting |
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> point for new chunks to add to the official or unofficial handbooks. |
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> -- |
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> TGL. |
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+1, plus the ML is archived unlike IRC, and users can search archives |
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and we could more easily compile a FAQ about ebuild writing and such. |
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-Alec Warner |
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