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hasufell wrote: |
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> On 08/17/2015 07:33 PM, Dale wrote: |
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>> After reading some replies in this thread, I thought I would share a |
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>> little info about -user mailing list. I'm a long term subscriber there |
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>> and read most threads. |
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>> If someone asks a question about something Gentoo related, members do |
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>> try to help. Example. If someone asks about RIAD, I don't reply |
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>> because I don't use it and have no experience with it. However, others |
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>> that do will reply and try to help. Same with systemd and other |
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>> topics. If it is a topic that very few or no one uses, then they may |
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>> not get help or very little of it. |
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>> Basically, the only way I see that a person won't get help is if no one |
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>> uses or has knowledge on that topic. I have a couple times asked |
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>> questions about Ubuntu and got replies. There are a few people that use |
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>> or have recently used Ubuntu and can answer some questions or they may |
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>> be distro indifferent. Asking on the -user mailing list is better than |
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>> subscribing to Ubuntu, asking and then unsubscribing or joining their |
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>> forums. |
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>> Hope that helps shed a little light that we do try to help if, IF, we can. |
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> You are totally right. I didn't mean to discredit our support channels |
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> which do a fantastic job. I was just noticing that there are still a few |
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> things we can and should improve. Adding such sensible choices to the |
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> official documentation (in what way exactly are details) is not only a |
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> documentation improvement, but also a clear statement from our side and |
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> encourages the community even further to support and openly discuss |
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> these things everywhere (as long as they are Gentoo related). |
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> The improvement of the documentation will also raise awareness about |
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> these choices and encourage users to use them. That again may improve |
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> our support situation, because more users will have knowledge about |
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> these things. |
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It's one of those things that can be read two different ways. I got |
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your real meaning but just in case, wanted to be sure. |
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There is almost always room for improvement. It's been a while since I |
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did a fresh install but I still remember one thing when I did my first |
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install back in 2003, the Gentoo docs are some of the best I had ever |
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seen. I don't think I have seen anyone else come even close. The docs |
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may have had issues at times but once they needed some TLC, someone |
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stepped up and got them up to date. This seems to happen every few |
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years or so. |
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The only thing I would add, put options in the right places for people |
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who want to use RAID, LVM, BTRFS and other things but try to keep the |
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basics as they are. Most people installing Gentoo for the first time, |
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should do a fairly basic install anyway. If they are a seasoned Linux |
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user, then they can follow links to the optional things like RAID and |
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adjust as needed. |
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I guess my point on the docs is this. Try to keep them simple but make |
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options available without cluttering up what we have for a basic install. |
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Hope that makes sense. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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