From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1NGfjD-0008A7-Qu for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:30:15 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGfjC-00089G-Jw for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:30:14 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGfj8-00087d-7o for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:30:14 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57536 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGfj7-00087a-Vf for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:30:10 -0500 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:51514 helo=aybabtu.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NGfj7-0006ER-9e for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:30:09 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NGfj5-0003jQ-6i for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:30:07 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NGfj4-0000ds-Hl for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:30:06 +0100 Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 22:30:06 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GNU GRUB Message-ID: <20091204213006.GN1528@thorin> References: <4B157A71.5060402@gmail.com> <4B157B51.2060402@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: Customization of GRUB2 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:30:14 -0000 On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 01:49:07PM -0800, Seth Goldberg wrote: > Hi, > > I'm going to make an unpopular suggestion, so feel free to tell me to > take a hike, but I think Bruce's question highlights a very important > point-- the documentation that we have for GRUB2 at this point is very > poor. In order to continue to get new users to use GRUB2, we need > quality documentation at least initially written by the people who > authored the code. User documentation is at least as important as the > multitude of features that are pouring in, and I think we'll see a > dramatic uptake of GRUB2 as well as a more-satisfied userbase with > comprehensive documentation. Feel free to flame me, but this is my > opinion. Seth, Feel free to speak your mind :-) And I think it's a very nice idea and would be cool if everyone followed it, but we can't make a rule out of this. If it was mandatory for new code, contributors might feel encumbered by it, and it could stall development. Then again, whenever someone comes with code in one hand and docs in the other, that effort has all my appreciation ;-) -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."