Re: is this list alive?

oh yeah! now I remember why I hate mailing lists, because people flame
other people for no good reason.

and as it's  usually true in most cases, both sides are right to some
extent. How do you expect outsiders to help developing GLI if the
basic step which is installing or run it is not explained anywhere,
not even in a readme file. Documentation is important to any project;
denying that fact is like saying "real programmers don't use comments
in their code".

On the other hand, Adnrew and Blackace are somehow right, because THIS
IS NOT RELEASED YET. it's not a requirement at this stage of
development to have installation/running instructions.


The way I look at the whole issue is that it would be nice to have
something to help new comers. So, It could be a good starting point
for me or the other guys to figure out the code and  write some
documentations of how to use it; and submit it to the main developers
to verify and approve. I'll try to do that, but I don't promise
anything, I don't know how long it's going to take me, or even if I'm
gonna succeed.

-Bedros




On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:58:14 -0600, Andrew Gaffney <[email protected]> wrote:
> Maik Schreiber wrote:
> >> or
> >> teaching people how to use something that isn't usable yet just so they
> >> can slow the development process down,
> >
> > Funny you mention that. After all that year's work there's nothing more
> > than a few files in a CVS repository somewhere. You guys are telling us
> > that being on the IRC at the right moment is the best way to work out
> > stuff, and mailing lists are slowing you down. Ring some bell yet?
> 
> If you were sitting in the IRC channel now instead of bitching about how we're
> not using the mailing list, you'd see that I just did a complete successful
> install with the GTK frontend (http://agaffney.org/installdone.png). You would
> probably also have seen the screenshots of the mostly complete (for the
> pre-alpha stage we're at) GTK and dialog frontends
> (http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/gli/).
> 
> Next time, before you open your mouth, actually have some fscking clue what you
> are talking about.
> 
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> Gentoo Linux Developer                                   Installer Project
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