[yocto] Yocto usability questions

[Gary Thomas]

On 2011-11-18 09:00, Philip Balister wrote:
> 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.

But that's hardly the same as having the "conversation(s)" delivered to my desk,
along with [normally] useful subject lines, that I can peruse at will.  It's
the difference between push [mailing lists] and pull [IRC logs].

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