On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 1:11 AM, Magnus <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2012, at 6:22 PM, Bayard Bell wrote: > > My surmise is that we've got a lot of users who are--I don't want to say > conservative but production-centric. We need to help them make the > transition from being Sun customers to OI contributors. > > In my case, I'm coming from Linux (production) and staring wide-eyed at a > new (to me) world with a bit of a learning curve to it. My biggest personal > stumbling block to contributing more deeply is the state of the wiki right > now. There is a little bit of doc here & there but it doesn't seem very > thorough, linear, or well-maintained in its current state. Documentation is > as important as code in some thriving communities, and I would suggest it's > a value worth considering giving greater weight to here. > As I've been working a lot with userland recently, I tried to take a bunch of my recurring questions and things that I keep having to pull out of various Makefile includes and document them here: http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/userland+Makefile+targets+and+variables This is still a work in progress. I was also considered providing a few example Makefiles and package manifests in the wiki as illustrations of how to deal with particular problems (a few of the xemacs Makefiles could be useful here, as would the latest version of git), some of which I touched on in this doc.
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