On Monday 08 August 2005 16:49, Anders Breindahl wrote: > Hello, > > I was just starting to reply to the post of ``Fraser'' on bug-hurd. He, as > many before him, offer his services to an almost alarming extent: He offers > to (re)learn to program in order to help the project. > > This sort of postings are typically taken very inserious, and sometimes > even ignored completely. Beside the rudeness of such, I can't imagine that > we can't be used for anything. > > This leads me to ask (again): How are users of GNU going to be integrated? > I might be completely lost, but trawling through the web hasn't been > beneficial for me to move on past the installation and basic setup. > The documentation ends at the point where the user has a partly-working and > user-interactionly bugged system. I hope that there is potential for > getting more to work (like the screenshots of KDE or GNOME promises), but > that is besides the point: The non-native-hacker users are left in the > complete dark, as far as I can see it. > > Am I missing something, or is there a general lack of documentation and/or > means of interacting with the users? If so, please provide some information > so the not-so-hackerish-users may contribute, too. Hell, I don't even know > how to file a bug report -- nor what to report. > > Please spare a minute to comment, and excuse my irritation: I have > developed strong feelings for this project. :) > Regards, Anders
I mean to point out: - The users of the premature GNU system are too much on their own - There seems to be too little flow of information and help downwards - No official documentation exist, nor any central entrypoints I would really prefer that the developers could either admit that I am correct on this critique or -- preferably -- argue why I am wrong. Assuming that the critique is justified: What is to be done? I would personally love to maintain an official wiki, if somebody could fill in the holes of my knowledge. I would also happily file bugs or even headdive into kernel debugging -- I just need to have my will to contribute appreciated, and pointed in the right direction. And I don't think I am completely alone on these thoughts: - Many users of free software are daily suffering from their unwillingness to install e.g. proprietary display drivers or animation runtimes -- these people are probably willing to give their effort for the completion of GNU, too. - In fact, people are regularly volunteering for various tasks. If people go to the extent of sharing themselves to the mailing list -- they are most probable willing to sacrifice time and effort. People volunteering in mailing lists should IMHO never be *ignored*. So please: Share your thoughts. Regards, Anders Breindahl.
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