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On Jun 30 2020 3:42 PM, Gunwant Jain wrote: |
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> On 20/06/29 03:27PM, EBo wrote: |
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>> Getting everything set up to move forward is sometimes the hardest |
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>> thing... |
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>> You will have to discuss this with your mentor, but a few posts in |
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>> some |
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>> appropriate indexed forum would be very useful for others. Also, if |
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>> you can |
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>> document what steps you went through to make it work. Speaking for |
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>> myself, |
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>> once I get something like this to work I start off with a clean |
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>> dir/disk and |
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>> follow my notes step by step so that I know I did not miss anything |
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>> when |
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>> writing it all down. |
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> I am not quite sure what you mean by using a forum for posts, if it |
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> is |
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> regarding having a public announcement of sorts, I plan to do it when |
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> we |
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> finish implemententing the basic idea of SharkBait. |
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> I agree that documenting will play a crucial role in my journey. And |
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> for |
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> that I had set up a personal blog earlier [1]. I am actively writing |
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> new |
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> blogs, thoroughly explaining whatever I do from scratch. |
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There are many places that people post questions/answers. I know of |
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one group that almost exclusively use StackOverflow. Others various |
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gentoo forums (see: https://forums.gentoo.org/). It is really up to you |
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and your preferences. That said it needs to be indexed and searchable. |
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Can you guarantee that your personal blog be around for the next decade |
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(a reasonable life expectancy for such a project)? I am simply |
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suggesting posting overviews/FAQ's in venues that we can expect to have |
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around for many years and be searchable by google, etc. |
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> I am also open to any suggestions to a better medium you might have |
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> for |
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> the documentation. |
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I have to be very careful here. Even moderately decent documentation |
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is a LOT of work, and I know of people literally writing documents full |
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time for very good pay. I could make some suggestions, and it could |
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take so much time and derail other efforts that would be your mentor's |
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priority. I do not want to cause any issues by interjecting comments |
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from time to time. Also, it will be months or more before I will have |
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enough breakout time to give this a real shot for install/use. |
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