On Tue, 26 Jun 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: > On Tuesday 26 June 2012 05:09:34 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > in other words, a *good* FAQ might be: > > > > "how can i use the yocto prebuilt toolchains to save build time?" > > > > a *bad* FAQ would be: > > > > "Does the Yocto Project have a special governance model, or is it > > managed as an open source project?" > > > > the kicker is that that last question is, in fact, in the yocto FAQ, > > along with a number of other questions that have never been asked by > > anyone in the history of the planet. i chat about yocto with people > > on a regular basis, and i can assure you, not a single one of them has > > ever asked, "hey, rob, can you explain yocto's governance model?" > > > > no, what they ask is, "hey, rob, how can i add a single package to > > an existing target?" a question that, i should point out, is not > > answered definitively in the existing docs *anywhere*. > > You bring up a valid point, but I think it might be worth mentioning > that the current FAQ evolved from a much less technically-oriented > version that was produced when the project launched. At that time > some people *were* asking the kind of questions that you're > deriding. I think there's still a section of the *non-technical* > audience who are interested in answers to those questions.
i'm sure there's a place for those less technically-oriented questions, but i will point out that on the main yocto docs page: http://www.yoctoproject.org/documentation you read: "And, you view a list of commonly asked questions with their answers by looking at the FAQ." which, at the moment, simply isn't true. in any event, that's my $0.02 worth. movin' on ... rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
