[yocto] Yocto usability questions

[Philip Balister]

On 11/18/2011 10:56 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 2011-11-18 08:02, Ourada, Paul wrote:
>> Jack said:
>>> From: yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org
>>> [mailto:yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Jack Mitchell
>>> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 2:40 AM
>>> To: yocto at yoctoproject.org
>>> Subject: Re: [yocto] Yocto usability questions
>>>
>>> On 17/11/2011 21:38, Chris Tapp wrote:
>>> On 16 Nov 2011, at 22:07, Jeff Osier-Mixon wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Mark&  everyone else listening:
>>>
>>>
>>> It is very frustrating when you come to an issue that isn't
>>> documented, however I have found the IRC an invaluable>resource as
>>> well as this mailing list. If documentation was to become more
>>> extensive I feel the categories should be>defined further and split
>>> into more documents.
>>
>> I would just add that for some corporate/enterprise customers (such as
>> myself), while IRC is great, it isn't as great an option because
>> corporate IS locks down IRC protocols. To use IRC, I would have to do
>> so from a non-work computer and likely outside of normal work hours,
>> of which I already put in way more than my wife would prefer. :)
> 
> IMO, IRC is like gossip - only those present learn anything :-(  I think
> information
> should be shared and archived and IRC doesn't really cover that.  That's
> part of why
> I pepper these lists with questions and problems and ...
> 

Good irc channels are logged and the logs will be hit with google searches.

Philip