Re: is this list alive?

Blackace <[email protected]> Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:52:21 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.installer
Organization Gentoo Linux
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 21:30 -0800, Bedros Hanounik wrote:
> 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".

See, the point here which you've illustrated but not touched on, is that
if you aren't able to understand how to run the code by reading it, you
aren't going to be able to help develop it...and you'd just be wasting
all our time.

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Blackace
Gentoo Linux
Infrastructure Developer